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The interdisciplinary panel spans the fields of video art, music composition, and AI ethics, engaging with 360° virtual reality narratives, interactive lighting/visual systems for musical performance, and generative AI. We explore the role of metaphor in intermedia composition, expanded space in narrative frameworks, best practices for AI engagement, and the critical need for discipline-specific technological literacy. We will share strategies for facilitating a relationship to technology so that students can be responsive to its strengths and limitations in a changing context, prioritizing an ethical relationship to technology that can withstand time and support “long-term social, cultural, and environmental well-being” (Zaeri & Roozafzai, 2024). As we “debug” the digital arts, we are rewiring pedagogical models and creative strategies to foreground inquiry, critique, and care. While technology is inevitably changing, our aim is to “establish connections between virtual and real world artistic experiences” (Bedir Erişti, S. D., & Freedman, K., 2024), cultivating a socially conscious and creative dialogue.