[Commlist] Research on AI Film Narratives festival

The Department of Communication and the Department of Information and 
Communication Technologies of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona 
are organizing the +RAIN Film Festival, the first European AI film 
festival to be held on the 14th of June 2023. +RAIN is co-organized with 
Sónar+D, in collaboration with Runway and CCCB. The festival will be 
held in the Campus de la Comunicació, in Poblenou (Barcelona), and will 
consist of 4 different sections, being the RESEARCH conference the first 
one. This link contains details on the different sections:
https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/rain

In the +RAIN RESEARCH conference, we will discuss the intersection and 
complementarities between AI and media narratives, as well as about 
critical questions such as authorship, copyright, creativity and ethics.

The preliminary conference programme includes the following interventions:

1. Keynote. Joanna Zylinska (King’s College London, UK). 
*AUTO-FOTO-KINO: On Nonhuman Creativity*

2. Keynote. Andrea L. Guzmán (Northern Illinois University, USA) 
*Communication and Authorship in an Age of AI: Where does Metaphor End 
and Reality Begin?*

3. Round table on the topic: *Narratives of AI: current trends and 
opportunities for film production, new roles in cinema production and 
the future impact on the media contents industry*.

Speakers: Claudia Giannetti, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Víctor Pérez, Víctor 
Alonso

Chair: Jorge Caballero

4. Round table on the topic: *Ethics and authorship in media and film 
creation in times of AI*.

Speakers: Sara Suárez-Gonzalo, Patrícia Ventura, Albert Sabater, Víctor 
Pérez. (in Catalan)

5. Presentation of the project *Automating Cinema: A Materialist 
Approach to Creativity in the Age of AI.* Speakers: Pei-Sze Chow and 
Claudio Celis Bueno (university of Amsterdam)

If you are interested in attending the research section of the festival, 
please send a message to (rainfilmfest /at/ upf.edu) 
<mailto:(rainfilmfest /at/ upf.edu)> with the subject +RAIN Research 
Attendance. Official registration will be opened on our website by 
mid-April. For further information, please contact the coordinators of 
the session Coloma Ballester ((coloma.ballester /at/ upf.edu) 
<mailto:(coloma.ballester /at/ upf.edu)>) or Frederic Guerrero-Solé 
((frederic.guerrero /at/ upf.edu) <mailto:(frederic.guerrero /at/ upf.edu)>). 
Attendance at the festival is free.

After the RESEARCH conference, we will have the opportunity to watch the 
best AI films presented to our festival, and will discuss them with the 
authors/creators that will be invited to come to Barcelona.

This is the link to the International Call for films generated with AI 
<https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call>. If you know anyone 
interested in participating in the Cinema FEST, do not hesitate to 
forward this message.
(https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call 
<https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call>)


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