media and arts
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CMedia Futures
Richard Adams@dickyadams
A little about me • Pioneering digital artists• About 30 interactive TV shows• Communities and Dating•Websites and apps• Architect/ strategist
• Marketing• Educator • Image maker, writer and musician
Long-term View
Agrarian Horsepower Brainpower Autonomous intelligence
Technology• Computation•Machine learning• Always-on, on demand• Automation• AI• Bots• Self managing machines• Neuroscience• Genetics
• Invisible companies• Massive platforms• Hyper locality• Few management jobs• Automated content
production/smart delivery• Interfaces between people
and machines• Goods made in your own
home
Media Landscape – TV and Radio
Broadcast Narrowcast Omnicast Personal cast Predictive
Everyone can make TV and radioComputerised playlists predictive AIRajar figures show disappearance of trad radio among younghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilzoDhmwg1w http://coed.com/2015/12/25/best-snapchat-story-videos-of-year-top-snapstories-clips/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-snapchat-is-the-new-tv-1486209602
http://www.adweek.com/creativity/ibms-watson-made-trailer-horror-movie-first-ai-173234/
https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-strangely-moving/ https://www.wareable.com/vr/cannes-best-vr-films-experiences
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/mythbusting-radio-1-losing-500000-listeners-half-story-1971412
Media Landscape – Photography
From chemicals to pixels and from
personal to sharedAnyone can be a
photographerComputation is
rendering the old crafts redundant
Google dreams creates images
Everyone has a high quality camera Go Pro’s are the new documentary
https://deepdreamgenerator.com/
https://petapixel.com/2013/03/25/extremely-realistic-computer-generated-imagery-is-killing-photography-jobs/v
https://whickersworldfoundation.com/2016/03/how-emerging-technology-is-shaping-the-future-of-documentary-filmmaking/
Live Recorded Multitracking Sequencing
Computer assisted
composiingOrchestra in
a box Sampling
Computer generated
and algorithmic
music
Media Landscape – audio/music
Recording studio on your phoneGenerative music
http://www.flow-machines.com/tag/listen-to-artificial-intelligence-music/
http://computoser.com/
“Apple Inc (AAPL) on Tuesday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $18.02bn.
“The Cupertino, California-based company said it had profit of $3.06 per share.
“The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The maker of iPhones, iPads and other products posted revenue of $74.6bn in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Analysts expected $67.38bn…”
Media Landscape – writing
Oral Written Publishing Blogging Self pubComputer assisted journalis
mAI writing
Forbes has joined a group of 30 clients using Narrative Science software to write computer-generated stories.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/28/computer-writing-journalism-artificial-intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/opinion/sunday/if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-would-you-even-know.html http://www.copyblogger.com/algorithm-writing/
Combine that with Neuroscience1. Understanding why and how we
like arts2. The brain is NOT a computer• https
://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231041-900-neuroscience-vs-art-lets-talk-across-the-divide/
• http://axnscollective.org/
So what about you?Director becomes a rules creatorWriter creates the worldJournalist becomes a VR directorFilmmakers – no limit on sets, any actor you like, computer assisted story generationPhotographer - director
Collision
Art
Craft
BusinessEconomics
Science
PHIL
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PHY
TECHN
OLO
GY
Empathy Define Ideate Prototype (Sketch)
UnderstandInsight
CreateIdeas
DeliverReality
External Linkages
Test
External Linkages
Empathy Define Ideate Prototype (Sketch)
UnderstandInsight
CreateIdeas
DeliverReality
External Linkages
Test
External Linkages
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“COMPUTERS ARE USELESS. THEY CAN
ONLY GIVE YOU ANSWERS.”
Picasso
Thanks
@dickyadams
Ps… Definitions• Algorithm; a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
• AI; intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research defines itself as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal.
Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving" (known as Machine Learning)