AI and Smartphone Technologies for New Artwork Creation, Interaction and Definition

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Dr. James She is a new media artist and university professor who is interested in merging traditional and new media techniques in order to innovate the creation process and experiences related to visual art. His recent interests explore the use of smartphone and AI technologies which have been developed by him and others to create visual or interactive artworks. In the last six years, he has been exhibiting his interactive artworks in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Brisbane, etc.

He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada. He then worked at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and invented a patented smartphone-based interactive technology. After that, he moved to Hong Kong and became the founding director of HKUST-NIE Social Media Lab, and is also affiliated with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, and launched the first AI and Art event in Qatar in 2019. His scientific research includes AI for Art, Design and Media, Data Science in Social Media and Multimedia, and Green IoT technologies for future social and interactive media.