Cinema & Machine Vision: Live at The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence w/ Daniel Chávez Heras

<p>Today&#39;s episode features a conversation recorded live in May at <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/series/the-kings-festival-of-artificial-intelligence-2024" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The King&#39;s Festival of Artificial Intelligence in London</a>. The event featured as the launch of <a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinema-and-machine-vision.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship</a>, a new book from Edinburgh University Press by Daniel Chávez Heras, who is a lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King&#39;s College London. </p>

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<p>Before a live audience, Daniel and Will chat about the themes and topics covered in the book, the intersections of AI and Film Studies, and answer audience questions. To learn more about Daniel and his work, <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/daniel-chavez-heras" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.</p>

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<p>Daniel has also agreed to give away two copies of the book to listeners! <a href="https://movingpixel.net/book" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Learn more here</a>. </p>

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