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This year the conference attracted 2,460 people to Culver City on May 27 and May 28. For those two days nowhere on the planet had a denser concentration of top talent working in the AI media space than a two-block radius of Culver City. ...
In 2026, something clearly shifted with AI video and Hollywood. And this May, AI on the Lot served as a kind of coming out party for this sizable vibe shift. ...
Micro-dramas, playable IP, character avatars are versions of what many people are calling neumorphic forms of media. These forms, while nascent, represent where cultural energy, consumer attention, and investor money are going. ...
... we made a small task force to give out free tickets to artists. We’ve done this every year, largely through our own networks. The conference size (2500 attendees) meant we needed to do this at scale. Simply reaching out to friends no longer worked. The solution we found was to identify interesting artists and give them bundle of free tickets to give their artist friends. We had two rules: the ticket must go to someone who is a working artist and the person must not normally go to conferences. This strategy worked well to bring interesting people to the conference and counteract any danger of it feeling too corporate. ...
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