Los Angeles, California Apr 25, 2022 (Issuewire.com) - Not only are festivals a good place to explore new stories, meet new people and hear from experts, it is a great way to experience how new technologies are being used to advance great storytelling. Since its inception in 2009, the New Media Film Festival's mandate is, honoring stories worth telling. The categories themselves change to reflect cutting-edge technologies and 2022 is continuing to showcase the best in New Media. See and experience 125 Top Global Content Creators on June 1 online and June 2 2022 at The Landmark 10850 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90064. Full details https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/events
Artificial Intelligence World Premiere:
Mercury XX from Germany - To design the original look of the film an AI model was trained on thousands of space fashion images and was tasked with developing speculative sketches of costumes and the fictional spaceship.
Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse World Premiere:
Ruined World an Elegy in Four Parts from Hong Kong - The visuals are a series of AI-generated artworks created by Polyptech (Poposki's creative alter ego in the Metaverse) through text-to-image synthesis utilizing a neural network. The neural network has been trained by Polyptech through thousands of iterations to generate visuals based on a string of keywords associated with climate change, such as the Anthropocene, ecology, nature, etc.
The text is an AI-generated poem co-written with Poposki, based on the text of Henry David Thoreau's reflection upon simple living in/with nature, "Walden". The AI uses a generative text model developed by Open AI, leveraging machine learning and deep learning to achieve the generation of natural language. The resulting AI poem is then read by an AI text-to-speech voice generator. The music in the film is a generative sound piece created by an AI music algorithm trained on Johann Sebastian Bach's Chorale BWV639 (Choral Prelude in F Minor).
Augmented Reality World Premieres:
Isaac Lidar from USA - Isaac, is part of a body of work that explores portraiture through the use of light detection and ranging.
The LiDAR sensor is the primary way in which machines and modern robots see the world. The work gives insight into the way in which we are teaching our creations to see us and the augmented reality component allows the viewer to interact with the portrait revealing layers of information. There is an NFT of this as well.
Mother of Sorrow Sacred Art Experience from the USA - A first of its kind. A site-specific test project aimed to reunite and invite people back into sacred spaces after the pandemic. It takes the existing church-stained glass and shows a visual representation of the transformation of bread and wine into Body and Blood.
Gaming World Premiere:
AWAY from the USA was made to explore the storytelling possibilities in the new environment which is virtual production on LED volumes. At this intersection of gaming, animation, and filmmaking, the production team was able to put together their creative expertise and technical know-how in shooting this short film using Unreal Engine in one production day.
Gaming Los Angeles Premiere:
Harold Halibut from Germany - is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean.
These are just a few of the groundbreaking projects being screened during the 13th Annual New Media Film Festival® there is an online version with Q & A on June 1 2022 and there are different titles, Q & A, International Art Exhibit, VIP Soiree, Red Carpet Press Junket, and Awards Ceremony in person at the state of the art theater The Landmark 10850 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90064 June 2 2022 Tickets are on sale now https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/events
Nominees from these countries -Australia-Bulgaria-Bangladesh-Belgium-Canada-Cyprus -France-Germany-Greece-Hong Kong -India -Israel-Italy-Japan-Korea-Republic of -Lebanon-Malta-New Zealand -Poland-Singapore-South Africa -South Korea-Spain-Syrian Arab Republic -Tahiti-Turkey-Ukraine-United Kingdom-USA vie for $45,000 in Awards with judges from Marvel, HBO, Simon & Schuster, ABC, BBC, PBS, and independent Industry Legends.
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