Karen Palmer

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Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future, an award winning XR creator and futurist who explores the societal implications of A.I and technology and impact of in-equality.

She does this by enabling participants to experience the future today through her immersive experiences, which watch you back using artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies.

Karen won the coveted XR Experience Competition at SXSW, Breakthrough award Digital Dozen and was honorary mention Prix Award ARS Electronica and with her film Consensus Gentium. The narrative branches in real time depending upon the participants eye gaze and emotions. Enabling participants to simultaneously experience AI bias, surveillance technologies and their potential integration into the everyday world around us and how that could impact societal structures, human rights and civil liberties. This immersive experience is designed to drive discussion about data privacy, unconscious biases and the power of technology.

Consensus Gentium has traveled to CHPDox in Copenhagen, London Roundhouse, London Film Festival , the Kaohsiung Film Festival Taiwan, Silbersalz Festival Germany, Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Munich Film Festival, and Ars Electronica in Austria to name a few.

There have been numerous interviews and articles on her work from Channel 4 News, BBC News, CBS News and press in Wired Magazine, Forbes, PC Mag, CBS TV , Fast Company , Engadget, The Guardian “ It leapfrogs over VR.”

Karen is a TED Speaker and been described as a Thought Leader in A.I, Immersive Storytelling for Impact, Futurism and Tech. Keynote speaker at AT&T Shape Conference, L.A, Wired for Wonder Festival Australia, Sydney & Melbourne, MIT and TEDx Australia Speaker at the Sydney Opera House. Delivered keynotes and workshops to corporate clients and Leadership Summits include Microsoft Seattle, Vertex Berlin, ThoughtWorks Toronto and Google Cultural Institute in Paris.

She has exhibited at The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum NYC, the V&A London, PHI Centre Montreal, Sensory Stories Exhibition, Armoury Arts Week NYC, Museum of Modern Art Peru, International Film and Storytelling events include the SXSW, ARS Electronica, The V&A, the Netherlands Film Festival to the Future of Storytelling in NYC. She has worked closely with prestigious organizations such as the British Councils in Canada, Western Balkans, South Africa and Peru. Invited to speak, ZKM Living Amongst Intelligent Machines AI Conference in Germany. CPH:DOX, Art, Technology & Change etc.

2020 she received Honorary Mention for the STARTS Prize ARS Electronica for her A.I. experience Perception iO, the future of law enforcement. This is A.I. Law enforcement training simulation which will watch you back. Perception iO will enable participants to experience how easily human bias can be intergraded into networks by humans and therefore understand the necessity for Transparency and Regulation in AI.

In 2017 her installation RIOT was acknowledged as one of the Digital Dozen Award for break throughs in storytelling. RIOT makes the player aware of their subconscious behaviour and enables them to consciously build new neurological pathways in their brain. Her work is at the intersection of Neuroscience, Behavioural Psychology and the Parkour philosophy of moving through fear.

She has been a research based artist working with Artificial Intelligence since 2015. Her Hack the Future Labs created 2020 are Think & Action Tanks at the intersection of Art, Film, Neuroscience Technology, Activism, Social Justice, Spirituality and the Parkour Philosophy of moving through fear. Creating interdisciplinary conversation and discussions to enable explorations of solutions for urgent issues impacting this rapidly changing society.

Expertise

Talking Points

Imagining the Future of Corporate Clients' Businesses

For corporate clients Palmer can envisage a new narrative for the future or their business, through a culture and global lens, to enable them to be optimally prepared for the Future. The objective is to inspire the Leadership Team to start to imagine the business's future for themselves.

Palmer has delivered these with great success to clients such as Vertex Leadership Summit (Berlin), NBC Universal DigiFest (London), TomTom (Data &AI Summit), ThoughtWorks Leadership Conference (Canada) to name a few.

Hack the Future Labs

In the time where she comes from they use the power of storytelling to envisage strategies of liberation. Empowering people to not just imagine alternative futures, but create the tools, networks, and open source tech to full-fill the visions.

Karen Palmer is currently in your time developing this blueprint now, titled "Hack the Future Labs," Think and Action Tanks at the intersection of Art, Neuroscience, Technology, Activism, Social Justice, Spirituality, and the Parkour Philosophy of moving through Fear.

Palmer shares her new immersive emotionally responsive film experience "Consensus Gentium." The film that watches you back using AI and facial detection technology to enable the participant to become conscious of their subconscious behavior.

The Talk Take away will be:
A call to action that will inspire the audience to activate their agency.

Hack the Futures Workshop

These Labs are designed to facilitate breakthroughs regarding creative practice, business strategy, ideas blockages or any other challenges. By enabling the team to become aware of limiting subconscious beliefs and harness the power of storytelling to create new narratives and develop the building blocks to actualize them in reality.

The Future Crashes into our Present

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future and she has come back to enable you to survive what is to come through the power of storytelling. This Talk is a cautionary tale of the impeding future crashing into our present and the potential role of the audience.

This Talk will cover Futurism Trends such as:

Surveillance Cities masquerading as Smart Cities.
Digital Colonisation : Exportation of Surveillance Cultures
Exploring the ethical implications and social ramifications of AI through storytelling.
Impending emergence of neural networked digital social platforms
Protocols developed by the Resistance-ranging from creating Open Source AI to to Democratisation AI & Data Democratisation and Hacking the psychology of Fear to name a few.

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Motivational Speakers

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Video

Why democratizing AI is absolutely crucial | Karen Palmer | Big Think

Implicit biases are feelings and ideas subconsciously attributed to a group or culture based on learned associations and experiences. Everyone has them, but it can be dangerous when those biases are transferred to a powerful technology like AI. By keeping the development of artificial intelligence private, we are risking building systems that are intrinsically biased against certain groups. Governance and regulations are necessary to ensure that artificial intelligence remains as neutral as possible.

Mind hack: How to push past fear | Karen Palmer | Big Think

Karen Palmer's work as a storyteller is about helping others focus on themselves and take responsibilities for their actions. Freerunning and parkour taught Palmer the power of pushing past fear to reach and exceed one's goals. By learning to understand personal triggers for fear, humans can effectively rewire their brains. Fear is a reaction to something new, which is often the direction we should be moving towards and not away from.

How will AI shape the future of storytelling? | Karen Palmer | Big Think

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future. She is an award-winning international artist and TED speaker. She creates immersive film experiences at the intersection of film, A.I. technology, gaming, immersive storytelling, neuroscience, consciousness, implicit bias, and the parkour philosophy of moving through fear. She is the creator of RIOT, an emotionally responsive film, which uses facial recognition and A.I. technology to navigate through a dangerous riot.

This Week In XR 3-17-2023 Ft. SXSW XR Winners Karen Palmer and Cameron Kostopoulos, Roman Rappak

Charlie and Ted are back with tales from SXSW. In the news: Meta layoffs, Adept AI's massive round, JP Morgan Payments backed Tilia raises $22M for metaverse currency and the Apple XR launch. Our guests are Karen Palmer, producer and director of “Consensus Gentium” a smartphone movie that won first place at SXSW for Best XR Experiences Cameron Kostopoulos, whose VR experience “Body of Mine” won the special XR Jury Prize, and Roman Rappak of Miro Shot, which performed a sold out mixed reality concert in Austin.

Your Brain Is A Remote Control | Karen Palmer | TEDxSydney

Interactive filmmaker Karen Palmer is part of a growing creative movement that seeks to empower game players through radical new approaches to technology and storytelling. To further this endeavour, Karen focuses on neurogaming, where neuro science meets gameplay, and helps us to become our own myth makers of the modern age. Karen Palmer combines Neurogaming, Film, Wearable Technology and Parkour to create dynamic immersive video installations to inspire and empower the user. Her practise involves creating a sense of mindfulness and being in the moment to simulate a physiological and spiritual journey through storytelling and technology.

Wired For Wonder - Voyage In To AI

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future. She is an Award Winning International Artist and Public Speaker. She speaks about her emotionally responsive film experiences at the intersection of AI, Immersive Storytelling, Neuroscience, Consciousness and Implicit Bias. Past topics include:- AI Voyage: Can Conscious Storytelling Save Us? Implicit bias. Democratising AI.

Feedback

We had a few very last-minute changes to make and Karen really addressed our high-level feedback on her own and delivered what we requested. ... keep reading Comcast

How inspiring! Neuroscience + VR + Parkour!

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