Media magazine conference
The media magazine student conference On Friday 24 th January, media students from across the country came together at the BFI Southbank Centre to listen to inspiring talks from a vast range of media industry professionals. The speakers covered topics such as AI, newspaper editing, fan culture, the making of music videos, cultural aspects of media and the writing of hit TV shows. Despite these talks exploring such wildly different aspects of the media, they were all equally interesting and thought-provoking . Chris Hogg The first speaker was Chris Hogg, a professor of media arts from Royal Holloway University . Hogg described AI as ‘magic and loss ’, and wanted to find a way to perfectly convey this. He decided to host an event called ‘The Speakaisy Live ’, in which he invited a number of poets to come and perform their work to an audience. Meanwhile, Hogg instructed AI software to listen to these poe t s and create artwork out of it. The...