Creativity support tool (CST) research in HCI has focused on supporting art-making, not art-sharing – despite the fact that distribution activities characterize the bulk of creative labor for online artists today. How might we better understand the way technology systems – including new generative AI systems – support or disrupt online creative communities, at a network level? Through interviews with 25 artists, data scientists, and data artists, we develop the Creativity Supportive Ecosystem: a framework for understanding the function of the online art world, and the roles that system designers can take to better empower artists against creative community threats, like non-consensual reuse and genAI-driven displacement.

An in-depth study on creative "misuse" through a 20 artist thematic analysis, revealing how "misuse" and "use" can be the same actions in practice, framed by different perspectives on cultural norms.

Through thematic analysis of interviews with 11 designers, we identify key language barriers present in graphic design education. We develop EKPHRASIS, an AI-supported interactive system that provides real-time visual aids, towards a multimodal design language learning experience for novice designers.

We consider how once-emergent technologies (e.g. printing, photography, conceptual & computational art) have historically transformed artistic value and culture, applying critical feminist- and medium-theory lenses to the contemporary question of GenAI's impact on imagery, content, and art. Informed by critical art and image history, we make recommendations for medium-conscious, data-conscious, and power-conscious design of AI systems.

To study this, we developed DreamSheets, a design probe Text-To-Image “sandbox” in a spreadsheet. We observed novice and expert artists use the tool as a computational substrate – developing their own TTI interfaces as "sheet-systems" that exemplified a variety of sensemaking strategies and creative exploration styles.