Lecture Series Keynote – December 5th, 4:00-5:30 pm
Join GSU alumni, Kamal Sinclair, Senior Sundance Consultant and Executive Director for the Guild of Future Architects in an interactive lecture on Making a New Reality. Over the course of Making a New Reality, more than 100 interviewees offered insights on how to define emerging media, as well as the challenges to and possible interventions for increasing equity and inclusion in emerging media. This lecture is the Keynote for the Creative Media Industries Institute’s lecture series, AI and the Creative Industries. Free and Open to the Public.
Kamal Sinclair, is making the world more beautiful as the Executive Director of the Guild of Future Architects; supporting independent artists as a Senior Consultant for Sundance Institute’s Future of Culture Initiative, and making art through a family creative practice at Sinclair Futures.
She also serves as an External Advisor to the MacArthur Foundation’s Journalism & Media Program and as a board member of MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality.
Previously, she served as the Director of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs Program for seven years, which supports artists working at the convergence of film, art, media and technology. She partnered with Chief Curator, Shari Frilot, in the development and platforming of landmark projects in the evolution of story, including experimentations with XR, iOT and AI as storytelling mediums. She also consulted for the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program, Johns Hopkins University’s Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technology Center, For Freedoms, and NYU Tisch’s Future Imagination Collaboratory.
NOTE: This lecture will be at 85 Park Place, GSU Law School, Lower Level.
