2024 AI and Filmmaking Hackathon
9:30am-7pm March 30, 2024 at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, 1300 Q Street, Lincoln, NE.
Cinema 16, the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, and the UNL Grand Challenges Media and Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms team are excited to co-host a one-day intensive AI filmmaking hackathon at the end of March. Creatives will offer up speculative visions of the future of truth, fiction, and generative media in the age of AI. The day will culminate with a dinner, guest speakers, and a film screening with awards.
No experience is necessary! Everyone is welcome: undergraduates, graduates, staff, and faculty across the university campus, from Emerging Media Arts to Computer Science, to English and Agriculture—including the greater Lincoln community. We will host several workshops leading up to the main event focused on sharing tools and techniques.
More information including this year's theme and prompt will be released during the event on March 30th, 2024.
Inaugural AI and Filmmaking Hackathon (2023)
The Nebraska Technology and Governance Center, Cinema 16, and Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey and NovySan from the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts organized and co-hosted a one-day intensive AI film-making Hackathon in April 2023 where creatives offered up speculative visions of the future and emergent system designs to offer us clues and strategies of ways that we can shape an interspecies future. The day culminated with a dinner, guest speakers, and a film screening with awards.