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Voices of Esalen: Hallucinate the Future: Ari Kuschnir on AI Filmmaking, Time Travel, and Viral Transmutations

Ari Kuschnir is a filmmaker, creative strategist, and the founder of the production company m ss ng p eces. His work is driven by themes of empathy, consciousness, and transformation. In this episode, Ari joins Sam for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of storytelling, particularly in the arena of AI filmmaking. They explore the ethical and emotional landscape of generative AI, and his new Esalen-inspired short video, a surreal time-traveling narrative conjured through text-to-video tools. Also included: — How AI filmmaking serves as a collective dream engine and wish-fulfillment machine — The origin story Ari's "Transmutation" series and why they work in t...

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The Kainos Podcast: What If We’re All Right? with Stephanie Lepp

<p>Stephanie Lepp is an award-winning producer, storyteller, and speaker, whose work strives to expand hearts and minds. She’s the former Executive Director at the Institute for Cultural Evolution, a non-profit think tank that addresses political polarization at its cultural roots. Before that, she was the Executive Producer at the Center for Humane Technology, the organization at the heart of the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. Today, she leads Synthesis Media, a non-profit production studio devoted to expanding hearts and minds.</p><p>Stephanie recently delivered a TED Talk about her project Faces of X, which uses a ‘thesis, anti...

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The Kainos Podcast: Team Light Can Save the World: Ari Kuschnir on the Power of AI Art

<p>Join Alexander and Ari on 28 August at 6pm London time for a private community session on AI filmmaking, the aesthetics of the future and the role of art in shifting culture by signing up as a founding member. Each month, we host group sensemaking sessions, invite guests like Iain McGilchrist and Nora Bateson, and learn new practices together. </p><p>A year ago, my friend Ari Kuschnir produced an AI film of Donald Trump drinking Ayahuasca. He sent it to me and it blew me away. It was funny, nuanced and beautifully crafted, and we teamed up to promote...

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Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary

<p>Ari Kuschnir, AI storyteller and artist,  takes us deep into the alchemy of AI storytelling as a form of social practice and activist imagination.</p><br><p>Known for provocative AI videos imagining figures like Trump, Elon Musk, and world leaders undergoing spiritual transformations, Kushnir talks about using AI as a creative collaborator and as a tool to challenge the cultural addiction to dystopia.</p><br><p>Along the way, they explore whether AI is flattening culture or opening new portals, why the future keeps being depicted as bleak, and what it might take to reclaim imagination as a co...

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LIMINAL NEWS with Daniel Pinchbeck: Ari Kuschnir & Schuyler Brown | AI, Imagination & the Spiritual Battleground

<p>The real battleground of our time isn't politics or technology — it's the imagination. Filmmaker Ari Kuschnir and embodiment guide Schuyler Brown join me for a deep conversation about AI, storytelling, spirituality, and how we reclaim agency in an age of dystopian futures.</p> <p>The future is being shaped in the imaginal realm — by the stories we consume, the images we repeat, and the futures we're told are inevitable.</p> <p>In this episode of Liminal News, I'm joined by filmmaker and AI storyteller Ari Kuschnir and embodiment guide Schuyler Brown for a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence, creativity, spir...

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The Kainos Podcast: Sam Lee on Songs, Caravans and Nightingales

<p>For an audio version of this episode, follow Kainos on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. </p><p>You can learn from Sam Lee, Riane Eisler, Nora Bateson, Jamie Wheal, Trish Blain, Schuyler Brown, Ari Kuschnir and Alexander Beiner on our upcoming course New Ways of Knowing. </p><p>The journey begins on January 14th. Learn new and ancient skills to gain sovereignty in the present, so that you can co-create the future. Including Complexity Tolerance Practice, Warm Data, Alive Edges, survival techniques, partnership paradigms and more. All with the support of an international cohort of like-minded explorers stepping into unknown...

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Gentalks: Ai's Role In Creative Evolution w/ Ari Kuschnir & Matt Zien

<p>Exploring AI Creativity, Industry Shifts, and the Future of Storytelling</p><p>In this episode, Fred, Matt, Ari, Minh, and others dive into the rapidly evolving world of AI and its transformative impact on creative industries. They cover everything from experimentation with generative models, industry disruptions, to the cultural and societal implications of AI-powered storytelling and tools.</p><p>Main topics include:</p><p>The current landscape of AI tools in creative workflows and how creators are customizing their processes</p><p>The strategic shifts in major tech companies like Adobe and OpenAI amid the AI revolution</p><p>...

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Ari K | Substack

... 2028. Founder of prod co. m ss ng p eces. Ari Kuschnir's stories. Instagram. +3. 1.7K+ subscribers. Subscribe Message. Activity Posts Likes Reads (17).

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Ari K (@arikuschnir) - Substack

Ari Kuschnir's stories. Subscribe. Who owns the future? My conversation with Team Human is out on YT and we talk about using AI as a creative ...

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About - Ari Kuschnir's stories

Creating stories that activate better futures now. Click to read Ari Kuschnir's stories, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Ari Kuschnir's stories | Substack

Creating stories that activate better futures now. Click to read Ari Kuschnir's stories, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.