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Infinity Festival Returns To Explore The Edges Of Tech, Art, Media & Entertainment

For someone who’s been writing about the intersection of (or, as I prefer to say, the collision of) media, entertainment and technology for decades, the annual Infinity Festival in Los Angeles can be a bit of a candy store, a chance to survey in one place the bleeding edges of change in all those fields. 

This year’s gathering, the fifth, runs from Nov. 2 to Nov. 5 at the Goya Studios in Hollywood. ...

“The show has always been a professional conference focused on how storytelling is being enabled by technology, with a true focus on the media and entertainment category,” said the show’s Chief Curator, Lori H. Schwartz. “Story is part of how all business categories communicate their offerings and in terms of (media and entertainment), it’s at the core of the actual product as well. So our audience has always been a mixture of creative, business and technology resources who are focused on the business of making content.” ...

Perhaps the conference’s splashiest event of the conference takes place before it quite starts. Two-time Oscar winner Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) and the festival’s immersive cinema chair, Intel’sINTC+3.4% Ravi Velhal, will premiere Le Musk, billed as a “full-length sensory cinema experience.” ...

The conference is well suited for Los Angeles, which not only features all the Hollywood studios, but an substantial and growing technology presence, including huge production centers for AppleAAPL+2.7% TV+/Beats Music, Google/YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, and NetflixNFLX+8%, whose Los Angeles operations are largely just a few blocks from Goya Studios, where the conference will take place. ...

See the full story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/2022/10/21/infinity-festival-returns-to-explore-the-edges-of-tech-art-media--entertainment/?sh=5f14d883ec81