Apopheniac

  • Author

    Cedric Arnold

  • Country

    United Kingdom

  • Production year

    2022

  • Type

    experimental film / video

  • Video format

    16:9

  • Sound

    Yes

  • Category

    Artwork

  • Tags

    analogue vs digital, reality, hallucination, AI

  • Event location

    United Kingdom

Neuroscience tells us memories are evolving constructs, changeable with each recollection. Here, twenty-year-old negatives, chemically melted, reveal abstractions that somehow mirror AI generated visuals. Both human memory and AI can produce false narratives due to gaps. Apopheniac (not a word) from Apophenia: (the tendency to perceive patterns in randomness) is part of an ongoing investigation into reality in our era. This text was inspired by a conversation with Chat GPT comparing human false memories and AI hallucinations, during which it invented a non-existent neuroscience paper.

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