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This invite-only event unites industry leaders, researchers, and creatives to explore AI’s impact on music, addressing creativity, ethics, and authorship. The panel preludes Artificial Art — AI vs Human Composers with thought-provoking discussions.
Join industry leaders, researchers, and creatives exploring AI’s transformative impact on music, focusing on what becomes possible when human creativity and artificial intelligence converge.
What new forms of musical expression emerge? How do we preserve artistic authenticity and define ethical boundaries in this evolving landscape? Featuring Lukas Loss, Interfinity’s artistic director known for his cross-disciplinary approach, alongside leading AI researchers, the panel will tackle questions of creativity, ethics, and AI-driven music creation.
This session serves as a prelude to Artificial Art — AI vs Human Composers, where discussion themes come alive through an innovative concert experience.
As AI rapidly integrates into creative industries, this panel offers tech innovators, researchers, science communicators, and artists a critical space to navigate authorship, ethics, and innovation, fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue and strategies for meaningful AI integration in the arts.
Program
- 5:00pm – Doors open
- 5:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q&A
- 6:30pm – Event ends
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San Francisco
5:00PM
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Bio
Lukas Loss
Director and Founder of InterfinityLukas Loss is a pianist, festival director, and cultural entrepreneur. He is the founder and director of Interfinity, an interdisciplinary music festival that bridges the arts and sciences, bringing together musicians, researchers, and artists to explore pressing societal and scientific themes. His work with Interfinity has earned him prestigious cultural awards in Switzerland.
Lukas studied piano in Basel, graduating summa cum laude, and also pursued harpsichord studies. As a soloist, he has performed with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his work as a festival director, he has also been active as a conductor.
As a chamber musician, he has performed extensively across Europe. In early 2022, one of his ensembles was featured on BBC Radio.
Beyond music, Lukas is also a co-founder of Lek.chat, an AI-powered video lecture platform. His work consistently explores the intersection of culture, technology, and science.
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Andrea Fanelli
Principal Researcher at Dolby LaboratoriesAndrea is a Principal Researcher at Dolby Laboratories, where he leads the Machine Perception and Reasoning Team. His team develops AI models to understand, enhance, and generate multimedia content. He is also an affiliate professor in the ECE department at the University of Washington.
Andrea earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He joined MIT in 2013 as a Postdoctoral Associate, working on noninvasive intracranial pressure monitoring, and became a Research Scientist in 2017 before joining Dolby in 2018.
At Dolby, he has led core research that contributed to products like the Dolby.io Analytics Speech APIs and the Dolby Atmos Personalized Rendering. He also initiated the multimodal analytics research area, laying the foundation for Dolby’s Multimodal Experiences Lab.
His expertise spans multimodal AI, machine learning for audio, music, speech, and video, human-computer interfaces, and wearables.
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Mariecar Mendoza
Senior Arts and Entertainment Editor at The San Francisco ChronicleMariecar Mendoza is the senior arts and entertainment editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she manages daily coverage and audience engagement for Datebook and datebook.sfchronicle.com.
Prior to The Chronicle, Mariecar was a features digital editor for the Los Angeles News Group, helping cover major pop culture moments in the region like Coachella and Comic-Con to the Emmys and Oscars. She also worked as a multimedia news reporter for several publications throughout the state.
Mariecar served three terms as vice president of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Los Angeles chapter and more recently two terms as vice president of the San Francisco-Bay Area chapter. In 2018, she launched AAJA Features Forum, a group that aims to provide programming, services and support for features, arts, entertainment and lifestyle journalists of color.
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