Screening & Panel Discussion of Hollywood movie "Her"
LOS ANGELES, CA — March 17, 2014
IMMERSION 2014 Screening & Panel Discussion of the Movie Her
Saturday evening, June 7th, at IMMERSION 2014 in Los Angeles California the Academy Award winning motion picture Her will be screened for attendees.
Her is a 2013 film written and directed by Spike Jonze that features Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Scarlett Johansson as the voice of Samantha, an intelligent computer operating system (OS) with a female voice and a personality. Set in the Los Angeles of the near future, the story follows Theodore Twombly, a lonely, soulful man played by Joaquin Phoenix who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken by the end of his marriage, Theodore is delighted to meet his new OS, Samantha, who he finds insightful, caring, and surprisingly funny. As Samantha's needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other. The movie raises profound questions regarding the future of relationships in a world where systems of artificial intelligence are rapidly becoming more dynamic, sophisticated and human-like.
These questions will be considered in a post-screening discussion with invited panelists and the audience during IMMERSION 2014.
Academy Awards: 5 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and recipient of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay
Golden Globes: 3 nominations for Best Motion Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor, and recipient of Golden Globe award for Best Screenplay — Motion Picture.
BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay
Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Co-winner of Best Film of 2013 (with Gravity)
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LOS ANGELES, CA — March 17, 2014
IMMERSION 2014 Screening & Panel Discussion of the Movie Her
Saturday evening, June 7th, at IMMERSION 2014 in Los Angeles California the Academy Award winning motion picture Her will be screened for attendees.
Her is a 2013 film written and directed by Spike Jonze that features Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Scarlett Johansson as the voice of Samantha, an intelligent computer operating system (OS) with a female voice and a personality. Set in the Los Angeles of the near future, the story follows Theodore Twombly, a lonely, soulful man played by Joaquin Phoenix who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken by the end of his marriage, Theodore is delighted to meet his new OS, Samantha, who he finds insightful, caring, and surprisingly funny. As Samantha's needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other. The movie raises profound questions regarding the future of relationships in a world where systems of artificial intelligence are rapidly becoming more dynamic, sophisticated and human-like.
These questions will be considered in a post-screening discussion with invited panelists and the audience during IMMERSION 2014.
Details and tickets are available online at http://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org
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Millions of Learners Worldwide
Immersive Education Initiative, the world's foremost experts in immersion and immersive technology, is a non-profit international collaboration of educational institutions, research institutes, museums, consortia and companies. The Initiative was established in 2005 with the mission to define and develop standards, best practices, technology platforms, training and education programs, and communities of support for virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality, simulations, game-based learning and training systems, immersive teaching and immersive learning platforms, and fully immersive environments such as caves and domes.
Thousands of faculty, researchers, staff and administrators are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, who together service millions of academic and corporate learners worldwide.
Collaborators and Summit speakers include faculty, researchers, graduate students, and executives from the world's leading academic and cultural organizations, universities, and companies, such as United States Department of Education, United Nations, NASA, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, UCLA, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Disney, Gates Planetarium, United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), Italian Ministry of Education, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) and many more world-class organizations.
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