Fwd: Reminder: SCS FILM NIGHT: Ex Machina - Thurs April 23 / 6:00 pm / McConomy

[Shirley Ho]

All community is welcome :) 

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Date: April 21, 2015 at 4:40:07 PM EDT

From: Catherine Copetas <cop...@cs.cmu.edu>

To: scs...@cs.cmu.edu

Subject: Reminder: SCS FILM NIGHT: Ex Machina - Thurs April 23 / 6:00 pm / McConomy

Please join us!

SCS FILM NIGHT
Thursday, April 23, 2015
6:00pm
McConomy Auditorium  - Jared L. Cohon University Center

EX MACHINA

A film by ALEX GARLAND

Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated—and more deceptive—than the two men could have imagined.

As a screenwriter, Alex Garland has brought genre-shattering ideas to familiar cinematic themes—deconstructing the search for utopia in The Beach, rendering a zombie apocalypse with both a biomedical reality and satirical bite in 28 Days Later, exposing the effects of deep space travel on the human psyche in Sunshine, and probing the moral dilemmas of cloning in his adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. With his directorial debut, Ex Machina, he forges his most chilling—and scientifically provocative—vision yet out of the dawning future of artificial intelligence.

Special and Profound thanks to Alex Garland and A24 Films for making this screening possible!

All campus community welcomed!
Bring an ID.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/cmu-gets-early-screening-ex-machina