Dissertation Defense on AI & Cinema
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Sporadic Research
Research about computational media and cinema shared irregularly and infrequently.
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National TV Interview on AI & Hollywood, Review of Interactive Cinema, and Design Workshops
Summer - Fall 2025 updates on filmmaking futures (NewsNation), interactive cinema (JCMS), and critical design (ACM DIS).
3 Publications on AI & Cinema at ACM CHI '25 | Yokohama, Japan
Presented new research at the premiere Human-Computer Interaction conference.
Media Appearances: Radio and News Interviews on AI in Oscar-Nominated Films
Recent media interviews about how AI is shaping Oscar-nominated films and resistance.
"AI is Soulless": Hollywood Film Workers' Strike & Emerging Perceptions of Generative Cinema
New peer-reviewed article in ACM TOCHI!
2 Publications & Honorable Mention at ACM DIS '24 | Copenhagen, Denmark
Presented two new peer-reviewed publications at the 2024 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
3 Upcoming Talks: Generative Cinematography & Film Worker Resistance | Dublin, Portland, & Virtual
Presenting at the Screen Studies Conference, Labor Research & Action Network Conference, and Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Festival.
Resistive Threads in Ivy Film Festival New Media Exhibition | Providence, RI
Exhibiting electronic streetwear as social movement material: an interactive denim jacket that plays audio stories, poetry, and music from embedded speakers
AI Film Screening: Critical & Creative Reckoning with Generative Cinematography | Seattle, WA
Public screening of student films made with generative artificial intelligence on 3.12.24
Documentary x Design Fundraiser | Brooklyn, NY
Mujeres Atrevidas fundraiser on Saturday November 11, 2023 from 6-9 pm at Millennium Film Workshop: Live Music + Film Screening + Panel Discussion
Can AI Collect Oral Histories? Public Talk at Columbia University | New York, NY
Presenting virtually on 9/21 as part of Columbia University Workshop Series: Experiments in Oral History Methodology
Artificial Dreams: Surreal Visual Story Generation | Los Angeles, CA
Symposium Presentation on Computational Visual Storytelling as Inquiry into AI "Hallucination" at USC Institute for Creative Technologies
2 Publications at ACM DIS '23 | Pittsburgh, PA
(1) Miracle Machine in the Making: Soulful Speculation with Kabbalah, (2) Temporal Tensions in Digital Story Mapping for Housing Justice: Rethinking Time and Technology in Community-Based Design
3 Publications at ACM CHI '23 | Hamburg, Germany
(1) Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent, (2) Envisioning Narrative Intelligence, and (3) Exploring Design Cards
Awarded NSF GRFP & Best Paper at CHI '23
Selected for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Best Paper Award at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
3 Papers Accepted to CHI '23 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | Hamburg, Germany
Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Publications in CHI '23 Archival Conference Proceedings
Toward Interactive Sonic Narrative Streetwear to Support Urban Community-Based Amplification of Space, Place, & Belonging
Awarded Research Grant to Launch Sonic Storytelling Streetwear Project
Airbrush Hyperfabric Published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Interactions
Designing Interactive Storytelling Fabric Connected to Motion Graphics and Music. Online at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3529705
The Strategies & Challenges of Collective & Critical Story Map-Making: Engaging Housing (In)justice Under COVID-19
Counter-mapping the City International Virtual Conference Presentation 2022
Airbrush Hyperfabric: Interactive Storytelling Fabric Connected to Motion Graphics & Music
University of Washington Textiles Studies Research Cluster Lightning Talk