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Spleen Unvented from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

Sculpted and Animated by Mike Pelletier Best not ask about the music.

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The Wizard of AI from Open Data Institute on Vimeo.

Is this the world's first AI-generated documentary?

Alan Warburton was commissioned by the ODI's Data as Culture programme to bring us 'The Wizard of AI,' a 20-minute video essay about the cultural impacts of generative AI. It was produced over three weeks at the end of October 2023, one year after the release of the infamous Midjourney v4, which the artist treats as "gamechanger" for visual cultures and creative economies. According to the artist, the video itself is "99% AI" and was produced using generative AI tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway and Pika. Yet the artist is careful to temper the hype of these new tools, or as he says, to give in to the "wonder-panic" brought about by generative AI. Using creative workflows unthinkable before October 2023, he takes us on a colourful journey behind the curtain of AI - through Oz, pink slime, Kanye's 'Futch' and a deep sea dredge - to explain and critique the legal, aesthetic and ethical problems engendered by AI-automated platforms. Most importantly, he focusses on the real impacts this disruptive wave of technology continues to have on artists and designers around the world.

Commissioned by Data as Culture at the ODI: culture.theodi.org

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Disclaimer: this work is a non-commercial work of critical/educational/satirical commentary. Under UK law, this is referred to as ‘fair dealing’ and protects the work from claims of copyright.

Data use: According to the data taxonomies provided by translatingnature.org, this work derives from the following data types: living and biological and non-biological data; non-living, commercial, personal and licensed data; static data; generated, processed, retrieved data and 'anecdata' (including metadata); and anonymised; identifiable and unknown data.

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Full (hyperlinked) credits can be seen at thewizardof.ai

· Written, directed, voiced, animated and soundtracked by Alan Warburton. · Back to The Futch animation by Ewan Jones Morris. · Special thanks to Joanne McNeil, Tom Pounder, Hannah Redler-Hawes and Omar. · Wonderpanic Theme by Sonny Baker. · Research Assistance from Fabian Mosele. · Steve Ballmer Genie by Christian Schlaeffer. · Pretty fishes by UglyStupidHonest · In Memoriam images by Alex Czetwertynski · Concept development and AI collaboration from John Butler, Samine Joudat, Ben Dosage, @dzennifer, Ben Dawson, Alejandro González Romo, @symbios.wiki, Ugur Engin Deniz

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AI Tools used:

· Runway Gen 2 to generate 16:9 ‘AI Collaborator’ video clips · Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALLE 3 to generate still images · Pika to generate 3 second fish loops · TikTok for detective speech synthesis · HeyGen to generate AI talking detective head · Adobe Photoshop AI to expand images · Topaz Gigapixel AI to upscale images

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Clips attribution:

· What is the Internet? (1995) by The Today Show · Microsoft Clippy (1997 onwards) web compilation · CNN Internet Report (1993) by CNN News · Napster Report (2000) by CNN Headline News · Tech Events in 2023 Be Like (2023), Verge, featuring footage from META · Zane Lowe meets Kanye West (2015), BBC Radio 1. · Unit 9 AI Workflow (2023) Unit9Ltd · Thanos Snap, Avengers: Endgame (2019) Marvel Studios, LLC · for AI artist clips, please see onscreen attribution.

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HYSTERESIS | Robert Seidel | 2021 from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

HYSTERESIS Experimentalfilm HD, Color, 5.1 Sound D 2021, 5:05min

Film: Robert Seidel Music: Oval Performance: Tsuki Title Design: Bureau Now 5.1 Master: David Kamp Funding: FFA Filmboard Special thanks to Miriam Eichner, Carolin Israel, Falk Mueller and Paul Seidel

In tech companies, universities and artist studios, machines work through and learn the history of mankind. Copyright dissolves; distinctions between original, imitation or inferior reproduction erode. No origin, no responsibility, no clear bias - just a primordial soup that can be transformed into any form without questioning knowledge systems and hierarchies. In this silent, but radical restructuring of entire industries, the artist becomes a template of a future that is digitally assembled from a myriad of fragments of the past.

In the experimental film Hysteresis, Seidel’s analogue drawings and digital processing merge with the queer performance of Tsuki, whose movements improvise between Ballet, Butoh and Berlin club culture. In a fusion process, her image is recorded, fed back through Seidel’s devices and then projected onto her body. An expanding digital sphere beyond labels and identifications with gender, culminating in dehabitualised neural patterns and reconceived fabrics of intimacy beyond rational understanding. In a final step, the resulting sessions are edited and dissolved by machine-learning strategies into a constant flow of pulsating images and folded spatial configurations. The resulting Muybridgean silhouettes, baroque textures and bursting structures fluctuate between the second and third dimensions, unfolding free-floating gestures that unhinge the laws of nature. Meanwhile, delicate abrasions of the pictorial frame build bridges into contradictory concatenations of reality. The soundtrack by Oval (Markus Popp) incessantly corrodes this dense web of associations, threatening to dissolve the remaining fragile points of reference.

At a time when an overriding predictability is forced upon us all, the film celebrates the disruption of pattern recognition and the artistic corruption of results induced by artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning. With Hysteresis Seidel explores new grounds in his experimental practice and collaboration. Unveiling a frenetic, delicate and flamboyant visual language, that speaks to the hysteria and hysteresis in this historical moment. The artist wants to open a discourse about these unique modes of AI creation – with implications beyond the film and other media, to that singularity, where history collapses into a single point in the present.

To the freedom of digital filmmaking beyond (commercial) hyperrealism! (Robert Seidel, December 2021)

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Festival (Selection): 04/22 National Premiere, Filmfest Dresden, National Competition, Dresden, Germany 04/22 Video Installation of HYSTERESIS, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 05/22 Special Mention, ITFS Stuttgart, International Competition, Stuttgart, Germany 05/22 International Premiere, Audience Award, Animation Avantgarde Competition, Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria 06/22 Annecy International Animation Festival, International Competition, Annecy, France 06/22 Animafest Zagreb, International Competition, Zagreb, Croatia 09/22 Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK 09/22 Special Mention, Festival of Animation, Berlin, Germany 09/22 Ars Electronica, Experimental Film Program, Deep Space Theater, Linz, Austria 09/22 Taichung International Animation Festival, New Angles Program, Taichung, Taiwan 09/22 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, International Competition, Bucharest, Romania 10/22 Bucheon International Animation Festival, Short Competition, Bucheon, South Korea 10/22 Hysteresis & Company: LIVE + Screening, Schaubühne Lindenfels, DOK Leipzig, Germany 11/22 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Artists' Film Selection, York, UK 11/22 Audience Award, LIAF, International Competition: Abstract Showcase, London, UK 11/22 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel, Germany 11/22 Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, International Competition, Winterthur, Switzerland 11/22 Special Mention, Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia 12/22 Beijing International Short Film Festival, International Competition, Beijing, China 03/23 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Shorts Competition, Ann Arbor, USA 03/23 Kaboom Animation Festival, AI & Animation, Amsterdam, Netherlands 03/23 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France 03/23 Glasgow Short Film Festival, Rise of the Empathy Machines, Glasgow, UK 04/23 Images Festival, The Ghost in the Machine, Toronto, Canada 06/23 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Unlock -Jumping into a New World, Tokyo, Japan

Full list > robertseidel.com/hysteresis/

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DIVINE DESIRES_Installation view from Stine Deja on Vimeo.

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FLORALIA II from Sabrina Ratté on Vimeo.

Video and soundtrack composition: Sabrina Ratté Sound design and mix by: Andrea-Jane Cornell

Inspired by the writings of Donna J. Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Greg Egan, the work plunges us into a speculative future, where samples of then extinct plant species are preserved and displayed in a virtual archive room. Through editing and visual strategies, this archive room is sporadically transformed under the effect of interference caused by the memory emanating from the listed plants, revealing traces of a past that continues to haunt the place. Floralia is a simulation of ecosystems born from the fusion of technology and organic matter, where past and future coexist in a perpetual tension of the present.

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Objets-monde I from Sabrina Ratté on Vimeo.

sabrinaratte.com/OBJETS_MONDE-2022

Objets-monde is interested in the traces that humans leave on the environment as well as the way in which these become an intrinsic part of our ecosystem. Abandoned objects, such as cars and computer screens, were captured with the help of photogrammetry to create a video collage composed of extracts from reality. Re-contextualized in disproportionately large proportions within landscapes seen from afar, these objects stand out like the ruins of monumental architecture. The absence of life as well as the luminous atmosphere of the work create a tension between apocalyptic feeling and nostalgia, between precious object and waste, between idealized nature and the indelible presence of human traces. These vestiges of the Anthropocene are deployed within an interactive installation in collaboration with Guillaume Arseneault, and a soundtrack composed by Roger Tellier-Craig. This is the single-channel version of the project.

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plot 2.mp4 from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

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Constraint Iterations 06 from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

Animation: Mike Pelletier mikepelletier.com Music: Phil Hoffart, Georgie McVicar, & Julian @offgrid.studio offgrid.studio

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paint_music_final from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

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ALIQUID from Sabrina Ratté on Vimeo.

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Constraint Iterations 4 from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

Animation: Mike Pelletier mikepelletier.nl Music: Jacek Doroszenko doroszenko.com

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Kelly - A Short Short Film from Joe Roberts on Vimeo.

Woman - Maddy Anholt Man - Scroobius Pip Dog - Smillia Postman Tim Gibson Bus Stop Man - Adam Fletcher Little Girl - Bella O'Brien

Director - Joe Roberts Producer - Shion Hayasaka Production Manager - Hannah Joy Cooney Production Coordinator - Michelle Cheung Executive Producer - Nick Crabb & Aly Moffat

Editor - Sam O’Mahony & Ben Putland

Director of Photography - Karl Poyzer 1st AC - Matt Choules 2nd AC - Rory Power Camera Trainee - Elliot Poyzer Camera Car Driver - Hank Vadim

Production Designer - Tim Gibson Master Props - Conor O’Hagan

Production Sound - Adam Fletcher

Make Up Artist - Amy Clarke Animal Handler - Sandra Strong Production Assistant - Algy Bruce

Digital Undertaker - Joe Lawrence Composer - Jeremy Warmsley Sound Designer - Tom Pugh @ GCRS Colourist - Yoomin Lee @ MPC

Thanks to:

Debbie Cave Dogs on Camera Cafe Yukari Sleeve Notes Records TFL Alex Rusher at Independent Charlie Covell Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam Panavision PixiePixel Lift & Shoot MPC GCRS

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Constraint Iterations 3 from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

Animation: Mike Pelletier mikepelletier.nl Music: Jacek Doroszenko doroszenko.com/

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Desert Crust 11 from andrew benson on Vimeo.

Part of a series of video compositions (paintings?), created through layers of feedback processing, simple 3D shapes, recorded in realtime with gestural control. This series follows a year of mourning my father's sudden passing, a time marked by deep self-reflection which brought along with it a deepened connection to materials and process. My original plan for these was to create lush synthesizer soundtracks, but it's a little daunting now to pull off something like 200 minutes of sound design. Instead I hope you listen to your eyes, or watch this with your favorite music, or bathed in silence in the coziness of your home.

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Preliminary Constraint 2 from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

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Preliminary Constraint from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

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Constraint Iterations 2 from mike pelletier on Vimeo.

Animation: Mike Pelletier mikepelletier.nl Music: Jacek Doroszenko doroszenko.com/