Evolving the Canvas: Bridging Human Creativity and AI with Google Flow

Evolving the Canvas: Bridging Human Creativity and AI with Google Flow

Special Events
Panel | 60 MINUTES
Join filmmaker Keenan MacWilliam and art director Julie Wieland in a discussion on how collaborations between filmmakers and technology are evolving the creative canvas with Google Flow, Google’s AI creative studio. After screening their respective films, Mimesis and Until We Meet Again, they will share how they bridge the gap between initial vision and final frame. This session reveals how the filmmaker’s intent remains the anchor within an evolving technological landscape, offering a unique look at how human creativity and new tools converge to tell personal stories.
Panelists
Keenan MacWilliam

Keenan MacWilliam

Keenan MacWilliam is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose work uses investigative mischief to question reality. A trickster by nature, her films dissolve the boundary between documentary and fiction, between filmmaker and subject, until neither holds. Her work has been supported by The Shed NY, Friends of the Highline, The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, V.I.F.F., Canada Council for the Arts and NEW INC

Julie Wieland

Julie Wieland

Julie Wieland is an Art Director and Visual Artist with a background in graphic design, working across film, design, and emerging AI media. With a distinctive dreamlike and melancholic tone, her work blends intimacy, nostalgia, and emotional realism, dissolving the boundary between memory and imagination.

Ben Wiley

Ben Wiley

Ben Wiley is a creative director at the Google Creative Lab focused on shaping emerging technology. With a background in filmmaking, he’s worked on music videos, album launches, TED Talks and weird novel experiments. Lately, he’s been creatively hacking models, building AI tools and finding new ways to help expand human imagination.



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