New Media Official Selection

Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30. Brooklyn Magazine named St. Félix on the list of the “100 Most Influential People In Brooklyn Culture” in 2016, calling her essay on Rihanna “definitive.” The Huffington Post named the same essay to its list of “The Most Important Writing From People Of Color In 2015.”

Phillip Sun

Phillip Sun is President, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of M88, a full-service management firm representing a diverse generation of talented artists who bring fresh perspectives and unique histories to create much needed cultural shifts. M88 was launched in August 2020 in partnership with MACRO Founder & CEO Charles D. King. Formerly, Sun was a Partner at WME. He represents some of the most sought-after talent at the intersection of entertainment and culture, including Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Donald Glover, Gemma Chan, Naomi Scott and many more.

He has graced THR’s Next Generation list, Empowerment list, and A100 Most Impactful Asians list. He was one of the first Asian American agents to be promoted to partner at WME and has used his platform to push for change as co-founder of Empower, WME’s company-wide program that ensures that employees at all levels feel supported rising through the agency — and externally as a board member of USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative.

Alyssa Rosenberg Imagining Virtual Realities: New Media and the Role of AI in Immersive Storytelling

Alyssa Rosenberg writes about the intersection of culture and politics for The Washington Post’s Opinions section. She is also a co-host of the podcast Across the Movie Aisle. Before coming to The Post, Alyssa was the culture editor at ThinkProgress, the television columnist at Women and Hollywood, a columnist for the XX Factor at Slate and a correspondent for The Atlantic.com. She has also been an editor at Washingtonian.com and a staff correspondent at Government Executive. Rosenberg grew up in Massachusetts and holds a B.A. in humanities from Yale University. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, New York, the Daily Beast, the New Republic, Salon and many other publications.

April 2 2021 4:00pm

The Ivy Film Festival’s New Media team is excited to bring Stephanie Dinkins. Come listen to Dinkins discuss Secret Garden, their new immersive experience on the histories of black women. Join us and learn more about the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and New Media, and how our panelists imagine the future of media, consciousness, and virtual realities.

Panelist

Stephanie Dinkins

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist whose work has created dialog about artificial intelligence (AI) and its intersections with gender, race, aging, and our future histories. As a professor as well as an artist and AI influencer, Dinkins is driven to work with communities of color to co-create artificial intelligence ecosystems that are values grounded and equitable. Dinkin’s varied work is exhibited throughout the world but she is arguably most well known for her recorded conversations with BINA48, a social robot with whom she has discussions about race, the nature of being, and other topics that contemplate some of life’s bigger questions.