Helen de Witt,UK

Going Out and Staying In: How can cinemas survive against the tide of streaming?

Streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon have becoming increasingly dominant internationally across all aspects of the film world from production to exhibition. The rise of these online platforms has caused great concern as to the future viability of cinema-going as a form of public entertainment. This talk will look at this issue in detail including some innovative strategies that cinemas in the UK have used to keep the audiences coming through the doors

UMAS / Art Academy
Glagoljaška ulica 18, Split
23 / 9 / 17:00

Rober Arnold

Persistence of Vision: The Relation of the Still to the Moving image

Several of my short experimental films and videos have explored the relationship between the still and the moving image, in a variety of different ways.

This simple, fundamental and familiar fact, that moving pictures are based on still (non-moving) images, has been a source of child-like fascination and wonder to me from the start.

In this lecture/demonstration, I will discuss this idea in relation to my work and some of the different ways that I have explored the relation between still and moving image, including using still images as the basis for movement, and treating moving images as stills in the creative process. I will also discuss some other films and ideas related to this theme that have influenced and inspired my thinking and my creative process.

UMAS / Art Academy
Glagoljaška ulica 18, Split
20 / 9 / 17:00

Darko Stipaničev

Artificial intelligence yesterday and today

We live in an age when artificial intelligence from science fiction films is becoming more and more an integral part of our daily lives. We are often unaware of this, and we may not be all that pleased with it, but the fact is that we will have to learn to live in harmony with artificial intelligence systems. That is why, in April 2019, the EU Parliament issued ‘Ethical Guidelines for Reliable Artificial Intelligence’, which emphasized that all artificial intelligence systems operating among humans should be legal, ethical and robust to technical and social errors. The main objective of this lecture is to give a brief introduction to the films that follow and to look at what was once said about artificial intelligence and what it can really do today

UMAS / Art Academy
Glagoljaška ulica 18, Split
19 / 9 / 17:00