Flux Festival: Art With a Nervous System - Conversation

Led by Jesse Damiani, this conversation features a group of media artists known for their innovative work creating imaginary worlds.
About this Event

Led by Jesse Damiani, this conversation features a group of media artists known for their innovative work creating imaginary worlds. Together, they will discuss their experiments with varied technologies – such as game engines and artificial intelligence – for designing alternate realities.

Guests to be announced soon.

Jesse Damiani

Jesse Damiani is a writer, curator, and advisor in new media art and emerging technologies. He is Senior Curator at Nxt Museum, Arts & Culture Advisor for Protocol Labs, and the author of I Create Like the Word: Poetry in the Age of Machine Intelligence, and a Forbes Contributor, with recent writing in Flash Art, The Verge, and WIRED. An Affiliate of both the metaLAB at Harvard and Institute for the Future, Damiani’s recently curated exhibitions include Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems at Nxt Museum and SMALL V01CE at Honor Fraser Gallery. Jesse lives in Los Angeles, where he runs the Reality Studies newsletter and Urgent Futures podcast.

FLUX FESTIVAL

Flux is a festival of creativity showcasing bold innovations in moving image and sound as artists experiment with emerging tools and technologies. Join us for an unparalleled snapshot of the global creative zeitgeist presented through a thoughtfully curated program of talks, screenings, performances, and digital art installations.
The inaugural Flux Festival is presented in collaboration with AI for Media & Storytelling (AIMS) from USC's School of Cinematic Arts and Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.