James Schamus will deliver “20 Fragments on Entertaining the Algorithm: Trauma, Attention, Narrative, Truth, Choice.” Schamus is a Professor of Film Theory at Columbia University, screenwriter (The Ice Storm), producer (Brokeback Mountain), director (Indignation), and former CEO of Focus Features. Schamus’ production company, Symbolic Exchange, produced Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet and Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s A Prayer Before Dawn. Other Symbolic projects include Rhys Ernst’s trans comedy Adam, Noble Jones’s The Tomorrow Man, and Andrew Ahn’s Driveways.