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PHOTO /“Diamond“ by Bosco Shane / Photo © Courtesy of Bosco Shane
BOSCO SHANE
DIAMOND
LONDON
A ROOSTER
A DIAMOND
AND A THIEF
Only a few weeks after its release in London, Diamond was selected for the RAIF - ROME AI Festival in Italy, setting a remarkably high standard for the future of the film,
Landing from music and photography, London-based video director Bosco Shane delivered her first short film, Diamond, shot in black & white. The film is heavily influenced by her childhood in Hungary, and set in a less romantic Eastern European urban housing estate, brutalist architecture, film noir, and surrealism.
The story is based on a dream-like yet very realistic environment, starring nothing less than a proud rooster, filmed inside a brutalist museum after hours. With her film, she asks the ultimate, bold question:
What is value, and who defines our values?
Bosco Shane proves to be one of the most promising AI directors of the moment.
“Diamond” / Bosco Shane
London (UK)
VIDEO / A "Model of Reality" VR animation by Max Cooper and Eris is Red London / The Wild Seeds Production / Video © courtesy of Zoltan Alexander ZOLTAN+MEDIA
'There is no way that a human mind can
keep up with an artificial
intelligence by 2035.' Gray Scott
PHOTO / AI experiments / Photo © courtesy of Sebastian Errazuriz
SEBASTIAN
ERRAZURIZ
THE AI
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
THE BEARS ARE HERE
NEW YORK
THE AI
Humans have forever adapted to changes in their environment and to technological advancements. While Artificial Intelligence has long been present in the fields of technology and robotics, it is now sweeping the creative industry and has captured the attention of artists and designers.
New York-based Sebastian Errazuriz is one of the rare artists, designers, activist, and born provocateurs with genuinely innovative ideas who has been exploring the potentials of AI in the creative field for years, and recently put out a prediction which artists to be the first to be ‘replaced’ by AI in the near future.
The most recent batch of AI platforms, especially DALL·E-2, and MIDJOURNEY, seem to come closer than ever to replacing that design process.
PHOTO / AI experiments / Photo © courtesy of Sebastian Errazuriz
write a text like ...
AN ASTRONAULT RIDING
A HORSE
IN A TROPICAL RESORT
IN SPACE
AND CATS PLAYING ROCK AND ROLL
It takes a human about five hours to make a decent illustration of this complex idea. Now type it into DALL·E. It will take the computer five seconds to create the image. It is as simple as that.
VIDEO / Motion sculptures / Video © courtesy of Maxim Zhestkov / Unit London
UNIT LONDON
MAXIM ZHESTOV
LONDON
MOTION SCULPTURES
An intangible sculptural work with artificial perception and focus on motion was created by digital artist Maxim Zhestkov, presented by Unit London.
His first solo exhibition was at the W1 Curates gallery featuring a computer simulation of immersive waves made up of millions of spherical particles that moved and collided with each other, creating digital "motion sculptures". The piece was created by using a series of algorithms informed by the principles of physics, which Zhestkov explained can bring about unpredictable results.
His other notable collections by Zhestov include Layers (2018), Computations (2019), Artificial Organisms (2021), and Borders (2022).
His biomorphic forms contract and expand within simulated space, promoting viewers to consider the interconnectivity between our physical and digital realities. The viewers are transported to a hypnotic virtual world where artificial life transcended human control.
"I love this process because of unpredictability. Everything could be ruined but everything could also be made in a way that you didn't expect," Maxim Zhestkov
ViIDEO / "Heaven's Gate" by Marco Brambilla / Vdeo © courtesy of Zoltan Alexander ZOLTAN+MEDIA
HEAVEN'S GATE
MARCO BRAMBILLA
OUTERNET ARTS
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
LONDON
HEAVEN'S GATE
Outernet Arts throughout February 2023, presented Heaven's Gate, a monumental new animation by Marco Brambilla, opposite Tottenham Court Road station, London.
A lavish, satirical and vertigo-inducing take on the silver screen spectacle of Hollywood dreams and excesses, Heaven's Gate both celebrates collective storytelling consciousness and satirises its saturated glamour. Created as a VR experience and totemic video installation, the work ascends through the seven levels of Purgatory. Each stage its own landscape of looping samples lifted from iconic moments of cinematic history.
In Heaven's Gate, Brambilla's latest Baroque collage that exists both as a virtual reality work and as a video, we walk through a giant panoramic landscape of film clips sampled from a wide array of movies, projected on four full-size walls and ceiling.
This kaleidoscopic delirium was organised rigorously, recounting the history of the world in seven distinct chapters. Clouds, meadows and cityscapes recured in cycles that, in the words of the artist, "engulf the viewers in imagery with a density almost impossible to sustain.”
Marco Brambilla is a video artist based in London and New York. Brambilla's work has been internationally exhibited and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), ARCO Foundation (Madrid), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C).
VIDEO / "My Girl with a Pearl" by Julian van Dieken / Video © courtesy of Julian van Dieken
VERMEER-AI
MY GIRL IS AN AI
MAURITSHUIS MUSEUM
THE HAUGE
MY GIRL WITH A PEARL
Is this AI work a captivating creation, is it art, or a crude copy of Vermeer?
The piece, which was created with MidJourney and Photoshop, was inspired by Vermeer’s masterpiece and has caused a storm after being displayed by Mauritshuis Museum as part of the “My Girl with a Pearl” initiative.
Since February 2023, Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring is on loan for eight weeks to the Rijksmuseum for the Vermeer exhibition. Mauritshuis Museum issued a call to “Create your own girl”, and have a chance to hang the artworks in a museum during the absence of the original painting. The open call caused an explosion of creativity, and over 3000+ girls from all over the word flooded The Hauge. The final selection of 170 works is now shown digitally in a loop.
The controversy has fuelled the debate around the validity of images created using AI tools with some claiming it is a slight against art and artists. According to the digital creator in question, Julian van Dieken: “The first AI picture in a museum is an art historical action”.
No matter what, a tool is a tool. It’s fascinating but it is like wine with water. Someone likes it, some don’t. As they say: Gentlemen prefer blondes; some prefer authentic vintage.
ATLAS
ATLETIC INTELLIGENCE
BOSTON DYNAMICS
BOSTON
ATLETIC INTELLIGENCE
Changing your idea of what robots can do. Over the past four years, Boston Dynamics has deployed over a thousand robots to sites around the globe. Artificial intelligence has made monumental jumps in advancement, to the point where these robots are able to perform stunts and communicate with humans.
Currently, Boston Dynamics is spending millions of dollars on research and development for this insane technology.
VIDEO / "Robots by Boston Dinamics / Video © courtesy of Boston Dinamics
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