Faculty News
Review: Writer in Residence Mona Simpson’s “Stunning” New Novel about a Family and Mental Illness
Acclaimed novelist and Bard writer in residence Mona Simpson this week published her seventh novel, Commitment (Knopf). A “minimalist masterpiece” (Ann Levin, Associated Press) the novel follows a California family in the 1970s and 1980s whose three siblings must learn to navigate their lives after their mother is institutionalized for severe depression. “Simpson is an artist of the family saga, the multigenerational narrative. In her seventh novel, she doesn’t revisit this territory so much as animate it anew.” (Kirkus) Commitment is one of Kirkus’s 20 Best Books to Read in March. More >
Professor Joshua Glick Talks about AI in Hollywood on Marketplace Tech
Visiting Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts Joshua Glick spoke with Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino about the manifold ways Hollywood employs artificial intelligence including de-aging star characters, creating synthetic voices, generating digital faces and imagery of crowds, and even using deepfake technology in documentaries to protect vulnerable onscreen subjects. AI’s entree into filmmaking spurs anxiety that it could supplant human creative labor like screenwriting, designing, and directing. “New tools and new technologies have always sustained a productive tension or creative tension with the status quo of the industry," said Glick. More >
Recent News
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