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BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), brings together systems
designers, human factors engineers, computer scientists, psychologists,
social scientists, researchers, and users from throughout the Bay Area to hear and exchange ideas about computer-human interaction and about the design and evaluation of user interfaces.
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Join us for the next BayChi meeting, Movies as a Mother Tongue: The Provocative Past and Future of Generative Media, where Marc Davis will explore the evolution of image and movie creation, examining its impact on language, interfaces, and the future of human communication.
Register for the Zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcOuurTwjGdXP0QmXDI8rlF5X8Lw732kN
Or watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MLtgNVOXIJ4
Humans have been making images for at least 500,000 years. Throughout this extensive history, using images to communicate and shape our world has undergone several revolutions. The biggest turning point for human visual communication is potentially today's generative AI for creating media. This technology is exploding possibilities for human expression, communication, and cultural power.
Understanding the past and the potential future of generative media is essential for human-computer interaction design. As a theorist and practitioner in media and artificial intelligence, Marc will share his early predictions and developments, highlighting lessons learned, and discuss emerging trends and predictions for how they might shape the next era of human communication. Critical discussions will include the democratization of visual culture, the design of systems for ubiquitous image and movie generation, and the dual potential of AI to enhance or exploit human creativity.
Marc Eliot Davis is an inventor, media scientist, and applied futurist who has worked at the intersection of media and artificial intelligence for over three decades. His interdisciplinary work at the MIT Media Laboratory, Interval Research, UC Berkeley, Yahoo!, and Microsoft resulted in over 240 patents in computing and interfaces for media, context-awareness, mobile, social, and personal data.
Marc earned his B.A. in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, his M.A. in Literary Theory and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory.
As a doctoral student at the MIT Media Laboratory, Marc created Media Streams (PDF), a visual language for annotating, retrieving, and repurposing video. At Interval Research, he invented novel technologies for automatic direction (PDF), cinematography (PDF), and editing (PDF). In 1997, he authored "Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology" for the Special Issue on "The Next 50 Years" for the Communications of the ACM. As an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, Marc did work in mobile media metadata (PDF) systems and co-founded the Berkeley Center for New Media.
Over the past decade, Marc has been looking 50 years ahead, researching and developing a series of books about how we can invent a better future for us all. This year, he is the debut author of Vincent on Mars and the accompanying Illustrated Glossary.
