| | SCA Events TIME CAPSULE 2050: Imagining the Future – Panel, Pizza, and Workshop Make Reservations » April 5, 2024, 4:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. Ray Stark Family Theater, SCA 108, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th St. LA, CA 90007 IBM and the Expanded Animation Research + Practice program invite you to attend and participate in a panel and workshop exploring future possibilities. Enjoy free pizza and find out how you can create an original project – game, AR/VR, live action, animation, or cinematic installation – that will be sealed in a digital time capsule until the year 2050! Entries are eligible to win up to $3000!
Schedule:4:00PM - 4:10PM Welcome & Introduction
4:10PM - 5:45PM Panelists' Presentations and Discussion moderated by Scott Mahoy
5:45PM - 6:45PM Pizza and Futures Workshop Game in Mary Pickford Lobby
6:45PM - 7:00PM Group sharing and Discussion About the Panel:The panel seeks to stimulate imaginations about what the future might bring - to provoke discussion about what new technologies and AI might potentially enable in the future - in cinema and in life. Each panelist will make a brief presentation: · Scott Mahoy: A summary of historical movements envisioning the future, including the Futurists and the Situationists. · Yves Bergquist: A review of recent advances in AI, neural networks, Sora, and other generative video tools. · Stuart Candy: An Introduction to the futures process, with an emphasis on creating just, sustainable, and ethical societies · Rachel Joy Victor: An overview of how to create data-informed emergent experiences where world affordances and individual agency intersect. Ethnic Futurism will be discussed. · Marientina Gotsis: A summary of how AI and new technologies are transforming media in medicine and health fields and a look at where these fields are trending. About the Workshop: Attendees will move out of the theater and into the Lobby for pizza and form small working/eating groups to imagine the future through a game. We will begin with a quick warm up to help get ideas flowing, and then launch into a more in-depth session to collectively imagine future scenarios. The goal is to jump start your moving image projects for the Time Capsule 2050.
About the Time Capsule 2050:We will conclude this event with a description of the Time Capsule 2050 project and competition. Students will be encouraged to create and submit an innovative media project that features YOUR visions of the future in 2050. What does your vision of the world look like in 2050?Projects will be selected if they clearly offer a truly imaginative, creative prediction of one or more aspects of the world in 2050. Projects can be distopic, utopic, apocalyptic, dream-like, experimental, hyper-real, abstract, documentary, mockumentary, comedy, science visualization, linear or non-linear narrative. Make your predictions about culture, technology, environment, transportation, food, fashion, and entertainment that does not currently exist, but might in 25 years!
The judges will be looking for originality, technical innovation, and creativity in all aspects of the project, including but not limited to the concept, artwork, character design, sets, props, costumes, dialogue/language, sound effects, music, technology used to create the project, and the overall vision for the future.
The Time Capsule 2050 project gives currently enrolled USC students and class of '24 USC graduates the opportunity to crystallize, document and share their forecast for the future. Students may work collaboratively in small teams of 2-4 or individually. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about our Time Capsule mini production grants. A Time Capsule project would be a fun and creative summer project.
The deadline to submit will be in December 2024, with cash awards up to $3,000 to be awarded at the Time Capsule screening in early 2025. All projects that meet the criteria for submission will then be uploaded, "sealed," and preserved in the digital time capsule at the USC Digital Repository until the year 2050.
When the Time Capsule is unsealed in 2050, viewers will have a glimpse of how the future appeared to its contributors 25 years ago. This project presents an opportunity for dialogue between different eras and generations. Visit the Time Capsule 2050 website.  
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