In this session of the seminar series Isadora Campregher Paiva and Dimitris Tzionas will discuss the effects of so-called generative AI for creative labour. Using the case studies of 3D scene analysis and reconstruction, and the writers’ and actors’ strikes in Hollywood, these talks will delve into the technical, cultural, and political implications of AI-powered tools. They will examine questions such as: how can these systems understand, formalize, and model increasingly complex cases of expressive and interacting humans? And how can we navigate the complexities of creative labour in the age of AI?

About the Speakers

Isadora Campregher Paiva is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a PhD candidate at UvA’s Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. She has a Master's in Sociology from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and an MA in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt, where she also worked as a lecturer and a research associate on the project "Digital Cinema-Hub". Her research interests lie at the intersection of film history and digital humanities.

Dimitris Tzionas is an Assistant Professor for Computer Vision at the University of Amsterdam. Earlier, he was a research scientist at the Department of Perceiving Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and even earlier a postdoc at the same place. He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn for his research on hand-object interaction, and a Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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