Culture & Code

The creative artists strike of 2023 rocked the entertainment world. Writers, actors, and radio artists took their fears about streaming, compensation and AI's role. Culture & Code speaks with Hollywood media and technology catalyst Lori Schwartz about this dispute that will reshape the future creative landscape for years to come.

Part three of our three-part series exploring the space where autonomous vehicles, media and artificial intelligence converging to create an entirely new entertainment experience. This episode examines what storytelling for autonomous mobility might look like when we have freedom of attention and a captive audience on the road.

Part two of our three-part series exploring the space where autonomous vehicles, media and artificial intelligence converging to create an entirely new entertainment experience. This episode deals with how our new environment is going to shape the content we consume.

Part one of our three-part series exploring the space where autonomous vehicles, media and artificial intelligence converging to create an entirely new entertainment experience. This episode explores the car as the next interactive media platform.

We explore audio as a storytelling medium that transports listeners, interacts with us, fuels creativity, and connects people—revealing how the human mind is still the ultimate theater.

No character better captures our fears about technology than the cyborg, a living organism that is simultaneously flesh and technology. At the same time, we love videos of paralyzed people taking halting steps in a rehab center or deaf babies with cochlear implants laughing as they hear their mother's voice for the first time. I'm a cyborg fan, happy to merge with a surrounding web of symbols, culture and technology.

Can AI actually be creative or is it human beings who are hallucinating? We examine how AI is transforming music, art, and more – while learning some science about the heart of the storyteller.

We speak with Ian Beacraft, the CEO and Chief Futurist at Signal & Cipher out of Chicago. Ian is an internationally recognized expert in synthetic media and its impact on across industries, not just media & entertainment. Ian provides an overview of synthetic media, why it burst upon the scene, the categories and who's using it. We also explore the impact of AI-powered content creation with Ian Beacraft. Synthetic media offers new opportunities for non-specialists to express their ideas in ways they never imagined. And like all powerful technologies, synthetic media is bound to be misunderstood and even misapplied until people focus on use cases that truly make sense.

We're talking with writer and creator Kent Morita about his new interactive short film A Moment In Manzanar. Investigating the experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II, A Moment In Manzanar took advantage of new generative AI technology to bring the characters into an interactive capacity.