media and arts

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

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Empathy Define Ideate Prototype (Sketch)

UnderstandInsight

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Empathy Define Ideate Prototype (Sketch)

UnderstandInsight

CreateIdeas

DeliverReality

External Linkages

Test

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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)