New York International Children's Film Festival New York, NY
Elliot Kealoha Blanchard
Designer and Creative Coder, Meta
My Robot Brother— AI and imaging
Program Description
Explore the AI, AR and robots depicted in My Robot Brother and just how close, or far, they are from the technologies at work and play today. Speaker and computer science expert Elliot Kealoha Blanchard is a designer and creative coder focusing on the intersection between art and technology. Elliot has a deep interest in how technology can unlock creativity for everyone. He currently works at Meta in New York City and is excited to bring his expertise to NYICFF to answer all your questions!
This screening will take place at Scandinavia House.
Presented At
New York International Children's Film Festival New York, NY
Film Synopsis
In the near future, all children have their own robot assistants. Eleven-year-old Alberte receives Konrad, the most lifelike robot ever seen, for her birthday, and she quickly begins to feel a real connection with him.
The future is now in this hilarious vision of a slightly absurd high-tech world not far off from our own. There, robots serves as kids’ personal assistants, leaving adults to a life of leisure hanging (quite literally) around the house in body suits and VR headsets. It’s not a perfect world, especially for 12-year-old Alberte, whose sweet but super embarrassing android Robbi is the oldest model there is, lightyears behind the 15.0 version of all her classmates. So when she gets the perfect birthday present—Konrad, the newest humanoid that’s not even on the market—her popularity spikes and things start to look up. Konrad’s AI makes him slick and amazingly human-like, and loyal but bumbling Robbi gets shoved to the side. But can the connection between Alberte and Konrad hold up to a real friendship?
Photo credit: Sola Media
About the Speaker
Elliot Kealoha Blanchard is a designer and creative coder focusing on the intersection between art and technology. He has created experiential installations for clients such as HP, Oracle, Okta, Barneys, Li-Ning, and Resorts World—and most recently has been working on design for AI. Elliot has a deep interest in how technology can unlock creativity for everyone. He currently works at Meta in New York City.