Episode 81 What are AI Robotics Offering Us? Conversation with 30 Films & 6 Books Abigail Child on The Origin of Species Documentary

The Colleen Gallagher Podcast

In this episode, we have the privileged to have a conversation with Abigail Child who has produced over 30+ films and has 6 books! I got to interview her for the LA Femme Festival on her most recent film The Origins of Species which covers how AI Robotics are being manufactured, built, and their intention of what role they will play within society! This is such a golden conversation on what are the practical steps we can take to make a difference during the time of AI leading the way and be informed about the ethical issues occurring with this!
Make sure to check out the film at either of these links
https://www.originofthespeciesfilm.com/
https://www.abigailchild.com/
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Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having has completed more than fifty film/video works and installations, and written 6 books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child addresses the interplay between sound and image, to create in the words of LA Weekly: “…a political filmmaking that’s attentive to form.” Her major projects include Is This What You Were Born For?: a 7-part work; B/Side: a film that negotiates the politics of internal colonialism; 8 Million: a collaboration with avant-percussionist Ikue Mori that re-defines "music video"; The Suburban Trilogy: a modular digi-film that prismatically examines a politics of place and identity; and MirrorWorlds: a multi-screen installation that incorporates parts of Child's "foreign film" series to explore narrative excess. Her most recent work is a trilogy of feature films, including UNBOUND, an imaginary 'home movie' of the life of Mary Shelley, teenage author of Frankenstein; ACTS & INTERMISSIONS, on the life of anarchist Emma Goldman in America; and ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES that explores human-machine interactions and gender roles in the 21st century.
Child’s books include 6 of poetry (A Motive for Mayhem, Scatter Matrix, and Mouth To Mouth among them) and one of the critical writings: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005). As a professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999-2016), Child has been instrumental in building an interdisciplinary media/film program.
https://www.originofthespeciesfilm.com/
https://www.abigailchild.com/

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