I was playing arround yesterday on my way home and inspired by the work I saw at the Photograohers Galery - Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but your not in mine - an exhibition of “single-shot films that use a variety of generative AI and digital processes, created from archival photographs sourced from the Paper of Cecil Rhodes at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford”

similarly after I uploaded a photo of my etchings and I promted the AI to generate the animation it started hallucinating and adding new elements within the 5 seconds clip.

I remembered also an exhibition I saw in Paris at Jeu de Paume 2018 DAPHNÉ LE SERGENT. GEOPOLITICS OF OBLIVION

https://jeudepaume.org/en/evenement/daphne-le-sergent-geopolitics-of-oblivion/

"Le Sergent imagined two fictitious retrofuturist communities, the SUM and the MAY, each developing unique alphabets to liberate human memory from complex image-writing systems based on glyphs, pictograms, or ideograms. The SUM utilized “emotional objects” to map users’ emotional states, creating a new rhetoric, while the MAY employed eye-tracking to follow the trajectory of the eye in interpreting virtual images"

Le Sergent was influenced by Orwell’s “C vocabulary” from 1984, a language that menat of limiting human thought.

Similarly, AI models are trained on data that have specific norms, styles, and biases.

Her installation shows ancient writing systems (used to store debts, knowledge) over digital archives that she manipulates.

AI hallucinations during my animation can be seen as an extension of that: the machine “hallucinates” and simulates possible movements based on the data provided as source, it doesn't have lived experience from which to be able to imagine what would be the moves that could generate form the etching i made.

I will play more with this idea and perhaps I will show at the Degree Something similarly.