
Dominic Lees
@dominiclees
Associate Professor in Filmmaking, University of Reading. Expert in deepfakes and synthetic media; makes films, writes about films. @UniofReading
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https://www.reading.ac.uk/film-theatre-television/staff/dr-dominic-lees 26-04-2018 12:58:34
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Award-winning digital artist Yvonne Muinde shares her thoughts on #AI for visual effects and her experience on blockbuster movies like #Avatar and The Hobbit in LHV Podcast Can you really paint with AI? 🎨🖌️

The UK government's strategy on AI throws the ball to Labour and ultimately.. lower case 'labour' Andres Guadamuz Creative workers and SMEs are at serious risks of being squeezed out of their market without safeguarding regulation. Link to the AI strategy: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65c1e399…

OpenAI's new #AI video tool shows us that market domination can leverage legal uncertainty, lack of or high-level regulation to its advantage. How will that support innovation, creative workers' rights or citizen welfare? We talk this through w/ SymeonBrown on Channel 4 News




Here's an in-depth podcast discussion about issues in the creative use of deepfakes in filmmaking. Thanks to the great team at 'The Last Human Voice'. Connecting Research #deepfakes #ArtificialIntelligence #VirtualMaggie #uniofreading Film, Theatre & TV thelasthumanvoice.buzzsprout.com/2240679/146395…

Honoured to be invited to deliver a keynote on actors and AI at the ZFICTION conference next week blog.zhdk.ch/zfiction/2024/… Connecting Research Film, Theatre & TV Equity #AI Uni of Reading



I'm honoured to have been invited to join the panel on AI and Ethics at DOKfest Munich. These debates will shape the future of our industry. documentary-campus.com/events/2024/in… Uni of Reading Connecting Research Film, Theatre & TV Documentary Campus

Thanks to DOK.forum for hosting a series of very important discussions on AI and film, at HFF Munich 1-3 May. Honoured to join these great thinkers for a panel on ethics and AI - Cassie Quarless, Stefanie Urchs and Nadine Hammele Connecting Research Film, Theatre & TV


“Documentary makers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck present us with a dilemma: now that AI can achieve a simulated conversation with your dead loved one, would you take up the offer?” Dominic Lees reviews Eternal You, out now. buff.ly/4ciK9FU

Many thanks to Documentary Campus for inviting me to speak on AI and filmmaking at the CineLink Industry Days. @30thSFF is fantastic! I also gave talks on AI to the inspirational Talents Sarajevo young filmmakers. Documentary Campus Connecting Research Film, Theatre & TV



Here's the trailer for my Public Lecture, 'Deepfakes and AI in film and media', 30th Oct 2024. In person tickets have sold out, but please join us on the livestream. youtube.com/live/SkPT3ueTN… Uni of Reading Connecting Research Film, Theatre & TV Culture, Media and Sport Committee Responsible Ai UK


Our AI Michael Parkinson spoke publicly for the first time on this morning on BBC Radio 4! Jamie Anderson & Mike Parkinson had a discussion about 'Virtually Parkinson', which comes out later this year. The pod follows all the guidelines of Pact & Equity UK & has a twist to it!


I've just come back from the Slobodna Zona (Free Zone) Film Festival in Belgrade, a superb human rights focused event. Thanks to Lena Trifunović and Tamara Mylo at the SONAR sidebar talks, who invited me to speak on the panel on AI in film. Film, Theatre & TV Connecting Research


'Performers are the canaries in the coalmine': experts from Film, Theatre & TV Synthetic Media Research Network weigh in on the need for AI regulation in the UK's film and TV industries at Parliament inquiry. 🔗rdg.ac/41DtfiA

