ExpressiveAI.net has paved the way for creative and research opportunities and collaborations. We are compiling a list of features and projects that have been inspired by ExpressiveAI.net. If you have used this website and its resources for a project, please let us know so we can feature your work on this page. So far, ExpressiveAI.net has provided inspiration for new projects, collaborations, innovative initiatives, events, and teaching curricula.
Press: “Can AI Make a Better Video than Me?” – Reuters Context Series, featuring ExpressiveAI.net founder Dr. Marina Hassapopoulou
“With writers on strike, would Hollywood call on AI to fill in? That day may not be far away,” interviewed by Jon Swartz for Dow Jones MarketWatch, May 2023
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Background: Dr. Hassapopoulou has spoken at a range of events besides academic conferences and classrooms, including community events, corporate and industry events (e.g., inspirational talk for Facebook US and Facebook France), and archival and cultural organizations. See below for a selected list and more on the About page, and contact us for customized talks, workshops, and consulting.
Selected list of conferences, events, and invited talks by Dr. Marina Hassapopoulou featuring ExpressiveAI.net:
- “ExpressiveAI.net: Creative AI as Ethical Critique.” Invited speaker for the “International Journey on Audiovisual Narratives with Artificial Intelligence,” Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), October 2024, São Carlos, Brazil
- “The Myth of (Post)Cinema: Participatory Experience and the Dispersal of the Cinematic,” invited keynote for the 23rd New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference, Kadir Has University, May 9-11, 2024, Istanbul, Turkey
- “The Potential Contributions of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Tools to Film Historiography and Media Obsolescence/Excess,” invited participant, Orphan Film Symposium seminar “Considering Questions of Scale in Non-Theatrical Film” organized by Tanya Goldman and Martin Johnson, NYU, April 2024
- “Audiovisual Data and Sensemaking,”invited speaker for the Beyond Search: Opening up Audiovisual Content for Humanities Studies workshop funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland/online, Sept. 2023
- “Digital Humanities Projects and/for Archives,” guest talk for Juana Suárez’s Advanced Topics in Preservation Studies graduate course, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, NYU, Fall 2023
- “Generative AI: Art and Creativity,” invited interview as “AI expert,” Context series, Reuters, Feb. 2023 < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2ROELlAJs >
- “Back to the Future: Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s Creative Potential Through Film Historiography,” invited lecture, Hong Kong Baptist University, Academy of Film & School of Communications, Spring 2022, Hong Kong, China and online
- “Multisensory Approaches to Digital/Analog Visualizations,” guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, May 2021
- “What
IsAre Digital Cinemas? Computer films, Discs, Hypercards, Floppys, Flash, and Other Digital Cinemas,” guest lecture for Juana Suarez’s Introduction to MIAP graduate course, NYU, Fall 2021 - “ARTificial Intelligence for Civic Engagement,” invited talk for Jack Stenner’s Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence course and art workshop, University of Florida, Fall 2021
- “Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Posthuman’ Condition in Experimental Cinema,” media presentation and clip curation, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence, Summer School, University of Cambridge, July 2021
- “Back to the Future: Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s Creative Potential Through Film Historiography,” poster session presentation, Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence, Summer School, University of Cambridge, July 2021
- “Expressive AI: Artificial Intelligence from an Arts and Humanities Perspective,” research and project presentation, part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Histories of Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, June 2021
- “Back to the Future: Early Cinematic Experiments with Artificial Intelligence,” organizer, presenter and moderator of virtual symposium: “Cinematic Experiments with Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Expressive and Activist Potential of AI from an Arts and Humanities Perspective,” NYU and University of Cambridge, Apr. 9 2021 https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/spring-2021/cinematic-experiments-artificial-intelligence
- “The ART of Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Exclusion, and Subversion,” Tisch School of the Arts, Pecha Kucha event, Fall 2021
- “Low/No Budget and DIY Media Making in the Digital Humanities,” invited guest talk for Kimon Keramidas’ Digital Humanities: Analysis and Visualization graduate course, NYU Center for the Experimental Humanities, May 2020
- “Interactive Storytelling: Traditions, Influences, and New Modes of Spectatorship,” invited talk for Facebook France and Facebook NYC Headquarters, NYC Facebook headquarters, Oct. 2019
- “Artificial Intelligence, the Popular Imaginary, and New Inequalities,” invited lecture for Research Centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies (RISE), Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 2019
- “Is Our Future Our Past? Artificial Intelligence, the Popular Imagination, and New Inequalities,” invited lightning talk, An[0]ther {AI} in Art summit: Decolonizing Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Art Making, Columbia University and the Knight Foundation, April 24-26, 2019
- Invited lecture, “Interactive Cinema: The Ethics of Participation and Collectivity in the Era of (Dis)Connection,” Media and Audiovisual Processes Program, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
More related conference and event presentations:
- “Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation book presentation,” Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference, June 12-14, online
- “Countering the Ephemerality of Complex Media with Do-It-Yourself Archiving, ” EYE International Conference, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2024
- “Artist as Machine/Machine as Artist: Co-Creation as Intervention,” Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2023
- “Locative Media and Do-It-Yourself Activism,” HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) 2023: Critical Making & Social Justice, NYC/Online, June 2023
- Event organizer and moderator for Brett Gaylor’s “Big Data Literacy and Interactive Documentary,” NYU Cinema Studies, Fall 2022
- “Writing Up A Multiverse: A Masterclass on Branched Narrative Storytelling by Tobias Weber-Ingold,” event co-organizer and moderator, NYU Cinema Studies, Spring 2022
- Workshop organizer, “Lessons from Hybrid Teaching,” NYC Digital Humanities Week, Feb. 10, 2022
- “Artificial Intelligence and Post-Human Embodied Experience,” PostSensorium Conference and Arts Science Festival, Riga/Online, Sept. 2021
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