Dangerous Experiments in Art, Engineering & A.I. : Rama Karl Hoetzlein

The BFA Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts is pleased to continue the CCA Interaction Design & New Media Lecture Series with our next speaker, Rama Karl Hoetzlein, and his talk on experiments that intersect art, engineering, and artificial intelligence. This lecture series is open to the public and offers contemporary insights into design, art, and new media.

Speaker Bio:
Rama Karl Hoetzlein is a media artist and computer scientist working in the areas of knowledge systems, computer graphics and artificial intelligence. He received a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in Computer Science from Cornell University with work in robotic sculpture, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D in Media Arts & Technology from the University of California Santa Barbara. His doctoral work explored novel interfaces for a visual internet, Quanta. Rama has exhibited media art works internationally in Beijing, Geneve, Seattle, New York and Copenhagen. From 2013 to 2019, he was a Senior Engineer with Nvidia and lead architect of GVDB Voxels, an open source framework for motion pictures and scientific visualization. From 2019 to 2023, Dr. Hoetzlein was Assistant Professor in animation at Florida Gulf Coast University and co-founder of the new Digital Media Design major. He is currently a professor in Interaction Design (IxD) at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

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