UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

January 24th 2025 11:00AM – 1:00PM

The NAMM Show | A3E

Hilton Anaheim; 4th Floor, Hilton Huntington Room.
777 W Convention Way
Anaheim, CA 92802, USA


Fretboard Summit | Acoustic Cafe

Old Town School of Folk Music
4545 N Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL

August 24th 2024
at 4:30 pm

Artificial Creativity (AC): the Intersection of Content Creation with AI, Neuroscience, and Human-Centric Design & Creativity: Part 1

As artificial intelligence technology delves deeper into neuroscience, it opens up new possibilities through neuroscience-driven insights into brain activity and physiological data. Content creators (as well as “other parties”) now have the opportunity to harness this neurodata to craft personalized and adaptive experiences like never before. In parallel, AI will inevitably use this neurodata, and even create its own “synthetic” neurodata, and this is what A3E deems as Artificial Creativity (AC). This evolution is transforming music, video, gaming, film, and social media content. From AI-generated music that adapts to the listener’s mood, and video content that responds to real-time emotional cues, to social media algorithms designed to maximize engagement using neurodata, and immersive games that react to players’ brainwaves—AI and AC are revolutionizing the future of content creation. The opportunities for innovation are vast, especially possibilities when applied to health-focused content that adjusts based on real-time stress or mood.

However, these advancements also present significant challenges, including concerns over data sets/data ownership, intellectual property, data privacy risks, potential manipulation, the risk of formulaic content, commercialization of human expression, and the devaluation of human creativity in favor of data-driven design. The ethical dilemmas content creators must navigate are profound. Join this A3E discussion to explore these possibilities and challenges, leaving you with critical new insights and questions about the future of content creation and entertainment technology.

Jamie Gale: The Unwritten Future of Guitar;
Why Nobody Plays Their Daddy's Guitar

Join Jamie Gale, Curator of the NAMM Show's Boutique Guitar Showcase for a discussion about the un-written future of guitar. The most prolific instrument of the last 100 years, the guitar adapts and evolves like no other. Despite the multitudes of irrefutable evidence, notice of its death has been proclaimed many, many times with the passing of each new movement.

What is this feeling of the guitar’s demise? Where does it come from? And why is it so wrong? And more importantly, how do we prepare for a future that people consistently predict incorrectly?

Below is a sample of some of the organizations that Jamie has had the privilege to work with as a Lecturer or Expert panelist.

Logo of la Biennale di Venezia featuring a stylized winged lion.
Logo of A3E: The Future of Music + Entertainment Technology™, featuring an upper case a, the number 3 and an upper case e.
Logo of EGB with the text 'The European Guitar Builders' below.
Logo with the text 'centrum voor muziekinstrumenten bouw' separated by lines.
Musik-Instrument-Akademien-Stockholm-Sweden
Logo of Harvard University Graduate School of Design with geometric shape.
The NAMM Show logo in bold, gray text on a white background.
SingularityNET logo with stylized "S" design next to the text "SingularityNET."
George Brown College logo
HTBLA-Hallstatt-Austria
Bold black text logo "mondoNYC" with stylized font, featuring "NYC" in smaller letters.
Unesco logo featuring an outline of a pillar building front.
Logo of Galloup School of Guitar Building & Repair
Illustration of a violin, guitar, accordion, and trumpet with the text "Handwerk trifft Musik" and "Musikinstrumentenbau Berufsfachschule Klingenthal."
Newark-college-England-UK