Arts and Entertainment

Historic downtowns. A state of the art conference center with hotels. Shopping districts. Minor league baseball on the way. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Mateas, "Expressive AI for Serious Games" Artificial Intelligence-based Art and Entertainment My work is in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based art and entertainment (Expressive AI). The fundamental research question in expressive AI is resolving the tension between autonomy on the part of the AI system and human authorship. I build AI architectures, in the context of interactive art and entertainment, that simultanously allow human artists to craft the experience while providing autonomous, generative and dynamic response to interaction. By viewing AI as an expressive medium, my work raises and answers novel AI research questions while pushing the boundaries of the conveivable and possible in interactive art. A major thrust of my research is Interactive Drama. Façade, a collaboration with Andrew Stern, provides a good demonstration of interactive drama, showing how novel approaches to character AI, story AI (drama management) and natural language processing can be brought together to create a dramatically compressed, intense, first-person experience. My continuing work on interactive drama is supported by a generous grant from Intel.

Julius Hollis, Earl Cummings, Sean Pittman, Daniel Halpern, Robert Shumake, Sen. Rodney Ellis, David Rivers and Art Collins, in support of The Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE), kicked off Super Bowl XLIV weekend in style, as they hosted a private celebration, “A Gridiron Toast to Excellence,” at the lush Mia at Biscayne on Friday, February 5, 2010. The lavish event primarily served to honor well-respected luminaries who excel in their respective fields of practice, consistently enriching the communities in which they live and work. In the field of politics, the ADE honored U.S. House of Representatives Majority Whip (SC-Dem), Congressman James E. Clyburn; in the field of media, honorees included nationally syndicated radio personality and philanthropist, Tom Joyner, as well as Chairman and CEO of BET Holdings, Debra Lee; in the field of sports/philanthropy, Miami Heat superstar and Chairman Emeritus of Alonzo Mourning Charities, Alonzo Mourning were honored; in the field of business, retired Executive Vice President of Coca-Cola, Vicki Palmer was recognized; and Miami legends, Gloria and Emilio Estefan were recognized in the field of entertainment/philanthropy. Read the rest of this entry »

Panasonic, the world leader in state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment and communication (IFEC) systems, today announced it is selected as an IFEC provider for the Airbus A350 XWB. Read the rest of this entry »

Product Description’Arts, Entertainment and Tourism’ is a pioneering text that, by focusing on the consumer, investigates the relationship between these 3 industries and how this relationship can be developed to its best competitive advantage. Issue-led, this text draws on appropriate disciplines rather than using one single approach, to examine issues in arts and entertainment within the framework of cultural tourism.

Written to meet the needs of students studying on management courses in the arts, tourism and leisure, ‘Arts, Entertainment and Tourism’:* Describes the general arts and tourism background* Identifies a framework for analysis that acknowledges differing levels of interest in the arts and entertainment* Discusses the arts and entertainment that feature (past and present) in tourism * Examines the reasons why the arts, entertainment and tourism have an interest in each other and how they go about developing the relationship* Examines the relationship: are there tourists in audiences and do the arts and entertainment attract tourists to a destination?* Evaluates the wider effects (good and bad) on both the arts and tourism* Discusses the direction of future developments by arts and tourism organizations and for future research International text with case studies from around the worldManagerial relevance but based on Academic disciplinesIncludes Entertainment as well as the ‘high’ arts.