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Friday, November 14, 2025

Michael Cioni on Ingenuity and the Future of Entertainment

Arts Management and Technology Lab: In this episode of the Arts Management and Technology Lab, Alexann Sharp and Cara Flanery sit down with four-time Emmy-winning innovator Michael Cioni to unpack how technology and creativity converge in modern media workflows. Cioni introduces Strada, a peer-to-peer platform designed to enable remote collaboration without cloud storage, and shares career lessons on building networks through industry events (NAB, Cine Gear, IBC) and assembling complementary teams (“Swiss-cheese” collaboration).

1 comment:

SapphireSkies said...

This was an interesting read, but I disagree with it because the thesis of the article seems to be that AI doesn't take over someone else's jobs, because the person who is using it is using it for something outside of their job. I think that this is an interesting point in that it really highlights a very sort of individualistic mindset. When you're talking like that, you're basically saying that you want all of your creative works to only be by and for you. What's interesting about that, is that it is kind of antithetical to what entertainment is. Almost all entertainment is created from the work and dedication of multiple people, in multiple different areas. To me, I see AI as a threat to not jobs, but the opportunity to work with cool people, and to advance my craft by learning new things from working with new people, or with new environments, or new skill sets, or new backgrounds.