BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on AI’s impact on the creative fields with College of Fine Arts faculty and industry experts! Dr. Basil Masri Zad a will lead a conversation about AI in which panelists will attempt to remo ve mysticism and misconceptions surrounding AI\, explore how it is trained and used in art creation\, and explore the ethical and legal considerations that emerge if AI art is truly creation or just imitation of other artists work. \n\n \n\nVisit the symposium website for more information on OHIO's AI Symposium and additional panels to attend. \n\n \n\nCollege of Fine Arts Panel Session:\n\n \n\nTitle: Artificial Intelligence and Art\, Creation o r Imitation? \n\n \n\nPanel Chair: \n\nBasil Masri Zada\, Ph.D. \n\nAssista nt Professor of Instruction\, Digital Art + Technology\, School of Art & De sign\n\n \n\nBasil Masri Zada\, Ph.D.\, is a transdisciplinary\, cross-cult ural scholar-artist\, activist\, Fulbright alumni\, educator\, curator\, ar t administrator\, and digital arts\, technologies\, and museum professional . Masri Zada's research and artistic practice focus on the practices of eve ryday life\, art\, and political activism in relation to the Syrian crisis that started in 2011. In addition to traditional sculpture and drawing\, hi s studio expertise includes a variety of mediums such as performance\, soun d\, new/multimedia\, video art\, installation\, technology\, interactive\, AI utilization\, and digital arts. \n\n \n\nPanel Member (IN PERSON):\n\nS ean Parsons\, DMA\n\nDirector\, Contemporary Music and Digital Instruments\ n\nMusic Theory\, Piano\, Jazz Studies\, Ohio University\n\n \n\nSean Parso ns is a jazz pianist\, composer\, arranger\, and educator and is the direct or of the Ohio University Contemporary Music and Digital Instrument program . Originally from Illinois\, Sean holds a Bachelor's degree in music compos ition from Illinois Wesleyan University\, a Master's degree in jazz studies from DePaul University\, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Universi ty of Illinois. Prior to his appointment at Ohio University where he direct s the Contemporary Music and Digital Instrument program and teaches Jazz St udies and Music Theory\, Sean has held faculty positions at Marshall Univer sity and Illinois Wesleyan University. He is in demand as a performer and c linician nationwide. Sean has shared the stage with many of the most notabl e musicians in jazz including Clark Terry\, James Moody\, Aretha Franklin Jon Faddis\, Dee Dee Bridgewater\, Steve Turre\, and Randy Brecker. \n\n \n \nPanel Member (IN PERSON):\n\nThomas Williams (OU Alumni)\n\nDistinguished Member of Technical Staff\, Nokia Bell Labs Research \n\n \n\nThomas Willi ams is a software researcher in the "Software and Data Systems" research la b\, currently working on systems research for machine learning systems.\n\n Besides working as a researcher\, he also served for 5 years on the Bell La bs internal venture which culminated in the ALU-9980 Packet Accoustic Echo Cancellation product.\n\nPrior to joining Bell Labs Research in 1999\, he b egan his career with Western Electric in 1983 as a software developer and c ontinued with AT&T and Lucent becoming lead developer and architect of seve ral operations support systems deployed into the USA telephone network.\n\n \n\nPanel Member (IN PERSON):\n\nEvan Jaffe\, Ph.D. \n\nMachine Learning E ngineer\, Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)\n\nA member of the Ohio Technolog y Consortium\n\n \n\nEvan Jaffe\, Ph.D.\, is a Machine Learning Engineer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center\, where he works in the Scientific Applicati ons group to support clients through project design and development\, train ing and outreach. His research interests focus on computational linguistic s and prior projects include coreference modelling\, paraphrase detection\, question answering and text classification. \n\nBefore joining OSC\, Evan worked in data annotation as a backend engineer on an ontology and knowledg e graph application and has separate experience with a machine vision compa ny. \n\nHe holds a doctorate in Linguistics from the Ohio State University and a BA from Brown University. \n\n \n\nPanel Member (IN VIRTUAL VIA TEAMS ):\n\nIhab Mardini\n\nAssistant Professor\, School of Design\, Rochester In stitute of Technology\n\n3D Designer\, Filmmaker\, Animator\, and Photograp her\n\n \n\nIhab Mardini graduated in 2014 after being awarded the Outstand ing Student of College of Imaging Arts at RIT\, and he was chosen as the de legate of all RIT grad students. His teaching career took-off in 2014 as an adjunct Professor in the School of Film and Animation (SOFA)\, he was hire d later as a visiting professor at the 3D Digital Design program (3DDD)\, w here he later was offered the position of an Assistant Professor\, a positi on he currently holds. He is now also an affiliate Professor of the Center for Media\, Arts\, Games\, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC). \n\nIn additio n to teaching academically\, for several years Ihab has taught 3D modeling and animation to kids at the RIT Tiger-Camps. He has also been volunteering to teach animation to kids at the Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance. \n\nThroughout his career at RIT Ihab worked on several personal and commi ssioned films\, which reaped him numerous film recognitions including a per manent display of Iroquois Creation Story at Ganondagan’s Seneca Art & Cult ure Center and two Best Animation awards\, in addition to a permanent displ ay of Soap Film at the Exploratorium Museum of Science. As a Professor\, Ih ab was nominated for Teaching with Technology in 2022\, the Eisenhart Nomin ation – RIT Outstanding Teaching Award in 2018\, and a Nomination for Outst anding Teaching Award for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in 2015.\n\n \n\nPanel M ember (IN VIRTUAL VIA TEAMS):\n\nWaref Abu Quba (Germany)\n\nFilmmaker & Mo tion Graphic Designer\n\n \n\nWaref Abu Quba is an award-winning Syrian-Ger man film director and animator. He has always been fascinated by the magic of moving images\, as a melting pot of many art forms. \n\nIn his creative work\, Waref constantly pushes the boundaries and experiments with new idea s and mediums\, combining camera work\, animation and innovative post-produ ction techniques. \n\nAfter graduating with a bachelor's degree in art from Damascus University\, he began his career as a graphic designer and then g ravitated toward animation and film. With over 15 years of industry experie nce\, he has gained extensive knowledge in various aspects of filmmaking. \ n\nWaref has several short films in animation\, fiction and other genres th at have premiered and won awards at international film festivals. Recently\ , he has expanded his repertoire to include AI-generated animation and laun ched a series of "AI Video Studies" to explore new creative possibilities o n his social media accounts. DTEND:20240228T171500Z DTSTAMP:20241005T062649Z DTSTART:20240228T160000Z GEO:39.324863;-82.101742 LOCATION:Baker University Center\, 242 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence and Art\, Creation or Imitation @ OHIO's AI Symposium UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45516819341301 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/artificial_intelligence_and_art_creatio n_or_imitation_ohios_ai_symposium END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR