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We research and promote the critical use of AI in creative processes through postgraduate programs, workshops, seminars, conferences, and exhibitions.

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ZINEBI Networking 2024
Conversation | 2024
Asier Azkarraga, Anna Giralt and Iván Miñambres will take part in this round table discussion on the ethical, technical and artistic challenges of combining artificial intelligence and animation. It will also look at the opportunities it offers and the changes it will bring to current processes, highlighting the impact it could have on the evolution of the sector and its potential to transform the future of the audiovisual industry.
Conference «To Power or Not To Power Your Film with AI?»
Conference | 2024
Organised by the Creative Europe Desk Poland in Warsaw, this session presents ways to use Artificial Intelligence in the film and TV industry. In the main panel, 'AI and the Film Sector: 'Creative Opportunities and Legal Considerations', some experts including Anna Giralt Gris, address how AI is transforming the sector, its creative applications and the legal challenges it could bring.
Goethe Institut
Workshop | 2024
This workshop by Anna Giralt is part of Web3Expressão, an initiative by the Goethe Institut to explore the intersection between art and technology. This workshop analysed the evolution of Artificial Intelligence and its growing influence on filmmaking, using case studies to demonstrate the creative potential of this tool.
Curt Creixent 2024
Conference | 2024
In this talk, Anna Giralt addressed the challenges and opportunities that AI can bring to short films. The session focused on the debate about the power and accessibility of these technologies, as well as their impact for artists, exploring how it could democratise access to creative resources.
Online Course Cinema, Agorithms and Artificial Intelligence
Online course | 2024
Would you like to learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is radically transforming the creation processes in film and its impact on creative workflows?
The body as a tool for audiovisual creation with artificial intelligence – Theatre Institute of the Barcelona Provincial Council
Activity | 2024
This activity integrates Artefacto’s research into the creation of synthetic audiovisuals using deep learning algorithms, examining the limitations of text as the primary engine of generation and the constraints these creations face within diegetic space. It also explores the boundaries imposed by algorithms and the potential for real-time creation, aiming to transcend the conceptual barriers between thinking, writing, processing, and generating images. The activity seeks to ignite a debate on new uses of artificial intelligence, questioning the symbiosis between text and image while exploring the potential of the body as a creative force.
Storytelling Workshop and AI Implications – Mecal 360
Workshop | 2024
In this practical-theoretical workshop, Jorge Caballero guides participants in exploring how artificial intelligence and tools like ChatGPT can be used to generate stories, unveiling a world of untapped narrative possibilities. Through interactive exercises, attendees learn how to integrate these technologies into their creative processes, enhancing their audiovisual projects. Drawing on his extensive experience in film, technology, and social communication, Caballero offers insights into the impact of AI on storytelling and its potential to drive pro-social change.
Picture This Conference
Conversation | 2024
Conversation How independent directors and studios are powering creativity and business with AI & VP
Eurodoc 2024
Festival | 2024
As we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Eurodoc network. The 40 participants selected, representing 23 countries, developed their documentary projects and careers over eight months, guided by Heino Deckert (Ma.ja.de, Germany), Jean-Laurent Csinidis (Les Films de Force Majeure, France), and Gema Juarez Allen (Gema Films, Argentina).
Cannes Next – Marché du film
Conversation | 2024
How are European filmmakers harnessing the power of new technologies, especially as Europe focuses on strong regulation of generative technology? This session features forward-thinking filmmakers and producers from Europe who have been experimenting with artificial intelligence for film projects of high artistic and production quality.
SerendipIA Workshop – Tabakalera
Workshop | 2024
Workshop on collective creation of an audiovisual piece with AI-based tools in the Tabakalera audiovisual laboratory. In this workshop we use tools based on Artificial Intelligence to generate a collective audiovisual piece. Through practice, we reflect on the challenges and opportunities posed by the use of this technology in film creation processes.
Sunny Side of the Doc 2024
Panel | 2024
This panel session explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in the documentary filmmaking industry. Moving beyond the hype, the discussion will focus on real-world use cases from around the globe, providing concrete examples of AI’s impact. Attendees will gain insights into practical tools, creative possibilities, the emergence of new stakeholders, and the development of new skills in the field.
Alternate Realities Summit – Sheffield DocFest – 2024
Summit | 2024
New generative AI tools have been making headlines for their supposed ease of use, their ability to create visual materials beyond the confines of an archive, and for helping to protect the identities of subjects. But how much of this is true? In this session, experts examined the challenges and opportunities of incorporating AI into documentary practice
DocsBarcelona 2024
Article | 2024
Recent editions of the Barcelona Film Festivals have looked at the role that artificial intelligence can play in screenwriting and the film-making process. Festivals such as DocsBarcelona and BCNFilmFest have organised various symposia, talks and round tables to analyse the artistic, ethical, philosophical and legal aspects.
Rodando Páginas
Workshop | 2024
Within the framework of the 7th edition of RODANDO PÁGINAS, from books to screens, this theoretical-practical workshop was given, designed to explore artificial intelligence (AI) models, especially large-scale language models (LLMs), and their various applications in creative and technical writing.
Conversations on AI
Conversation | 2023
Can AI change the way we produce, distribute and consume films? Can it change the way we tell stories? In this conversation between Xavier Mitjana and Anna Giralt Gris, we will see how AI will give rise to new forms of audiovisual expression and an opportunity to democratise film creation, without neglecting the challenges that this entails.
The AI in Creative Industries – North American Tribune
Article | 2024
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in the film industry marks a milestone comparable to the invention of the camera in the 19th century: a technological advance that gave rise to a new art, photography. This article explores how this technology is redefining cinema, marking a turning point in the creation and distribution of audiovisual works. Perhaps we are facing a new artistic medium that still has no name?
CVEU Workshop –  ICCV Paris
Masterclass | 2023
This workshop brings together researchers, artists, and entrepreneurs working in computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and cognitive research. It aims to raise awareness of recent advances in machine learning technologies to enable assistive creation and understanding of creative videos.
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Alternate Realities Summit- Sheffiled Doc Fest 2023
Summit | 2023
Artificial Intelligence is changing the landscape of our everyday lives in potentially seismic ways. But how is it impacting our storytelling? This panel invites AI experts and artists, who are employing the medium in their works to explore its potential in the creation process. The discussion will also cover the ethics surrounding this new technology, what the future may hold, and what they are most excited – and nervous – about.
Film Financing Market – Sitges Film festival 2023
Masterclass | 2023
AI is reshaping the film industry, posing new opportunities but also unique challenges. In this panel discussion, we explore how AI is redefining film production – from automating certain processes to generating creative content. We’ll look at the most advanced tools, practical applications, and what it means for film professionals.
Body AI – L’Alternativa 2023
Workshop | 2023
This workshop delved into a systematic process of working with images, emphasizing the body as the driving force of the cinematographic act. By exploring the rhythms and movements of the body, we sought to translate them into the generation of images, audio and texts for cinematographic work. Other editing methods that do not rely on reason were also put into practice: sensory testing, circadian rhythms, fractals and editing with body transducers.
Cali Short Film Festival 2023
Podcast | 2023
In this episode recorded as part of the Cali Short Film Festival 2023, Víctor H. León and Manuelita Rosero talk with researchers and audiovisual producers Jorge Caballero Ramos and Anna Giralt Gris about research and exploration of the use of AI in the creative field. Before the episode, Diego Llanos, a member of Jambrina Producciones, tells us about his experience repairing the podcast with AI.
Sitges Film Festival 2023
Podcast | 2023
Is technology the key to astonishing the audience? In this episode, experts reflect from the Sitges Film Festival on the impact of Artificial Intelligence in cinema, particularly in special and visual effects. This podcast was recorded live at the King Kong Area of the festival.
EINA 2023-2024
Masterclass | 2023
Anna Giralt Gris talks about specific areas where Generative AI can help in case study 3 of EINA 2023-2024. She explains how the production company Artefacto has used different artificial intelligence tools in the making of several documentary films and the processes they have followed.
Towards a New Dimension of Film Editing – HTXT
Article | 2023
Film editing is an essential process in filmmaking that allows for the manipulation of time, space and image composition. With the emergence of deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) models, new possibilities for exploration in film editing are opening up, significantly transforming editing processes and proposing new work methodologies. This article analyzes how the implementation of AI-based systems can automate processes, improve efficiency in film production and open new avenues for artistic experimentation and creation.
La Trama – Artificial Intelligence
Podcast | 2023
Taking advantage of the exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, ​​‘Artificial Intelligence’, curated by Lluís Nacenta, this new phenomenon (AI) is addressed and the impact it is having (and will have) on the world of screenwriting.
DOK Exchange XR – DOK Leipzig
Conference | 2023
DOK Exchange XR is DOK Leipzig’s inspiration and networking programme on interactive and immersive storytelling with a focus on XR works. This year the programme focused on generative AI and its impact on human creativity and society, opportunities and threats associated with the use of AI tools in the film and XR industry, behavioural data in XR programming and storytelling, the future of AI in the context of gaming and the development of site-specific documentary storytelling, AI user-generated content and assets for XR prototyping.
Acadèmia del Cinema Català
Workshop | 2023
A workshop on artificial intelligence applied to the scriptwriting process that addresses where we come from, where we are and where we are heading globally with AI. During the workshop, useful tools were presented and proposed so that residents could introduce them when writing films.
l’Alternativa 2022
Conference | 2022
In the last five years we have seen a significant increase in machine learning models in all areas, with a particular interest in images and sounds. These neural network models are capable of automatically organizing, classifying and generating content. These advances lead to important changes in creative processes and force us to rethink the ways of production.
Extremlab
Workshop | 2021
This workshop, held for the Extremlab film laboratory, is a pedagogical and experimental proposal with moving images using open source code and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Through a theoretical and practical program, workshop attendees were introduced to a systematic process of working with images from classification and organization to the automatic generation of images using neural networks and computational processes.
Done 4
Conference | 2020
Photography has left the digital era behind to enter a new evolutionary state: the computational one. Within the framework of DONE's “Unsupervised Imaginations”, this round table aims to establish the bases for understanding this new paradigm we are entering and to shed light on the structural changes that artificial intelligence is bringing to the world of photography, as well as to science, art, creativity and practically any discipline.
Muta festival 2020
Workshop | 2020
Artificial intelligence mechanisms are often associated with industrial practices, and their complexity and cost often make them inaccessible to other sectors. However, as a result of open source, free repositories on the Internet and the current power of cloud computing, creators of any discipline can access these powerful tools. Due to the effectiveness of these techniques, there is great polarization regarding the ethics and function of such algorithms.
Cinemateca Bogotá
Festival | 2019
Aimed at creators from different disciplines to learn about and promote the use of artificial intelligence in creative processes. This workshop provided an overview of creation using artificial intelligence. Participants had the opportunity to develop an individual project through the Runway platform.
DocumentaMadrid 2019
Seminar | 2019
Can machines help us to be more creative? The recent massive implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing many human activities, including those that are presumed to be irreplaceable, such as creative activities. This seminar began with an overview of the use of AI in the art world, and then focused on its possible applications in documentary film, ending by analyzing automatic processes in audiovisual writing.
ESC19
Workshop | 2019
A non-urban meeting for experimentation and dissemination of the creative, artistic, free and people-friendly use of electronic/digital technology. RUNWAY was presented, an application that offers tools that allow creators to use artificial intelligence in an intuitive way.
CCCB Barcelona
Conversation | 2019
At a time when artificial intelligence has made a significant leap in its creative applications, we want to generate a space for debate on the nature of automated artistic creation. We share a table with scientists and artists who are experts in artificial intelligence, philosophy, literature and robotics. And we put the analytical sense of the audience to the test to detect whether a work is the result of human action or algorithms.
Medialab Matadero
Seminar | 2019
In the post-truth era, where fake information is designed and created as a tool to obtain economic, political, etc. credit, the ability to trace and verify the origin of the content is a major challenge. However, the fact that most Deepfake videos are obviously fake makes them disturbing and interesting in equal parts.
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