The Body is a Gesture

  • Author

    Guli Silberstein

  • Country

    UK

  • Production year

    2021

  • Type

    experimental film / video

  • Video format

    16 : 9

  • Sound

    Yes

  • Category

    Artwork

  • Tags

An AI computer-vision system reconstructs footage of humanity in different contexts - business, love, city, joy, protest. The next-frame-prediction technology is trying to predict the future based on just a couple of seconds from each clip, producing surprisingly hallucinatory video outputs, engaging with surrealist and expressionist painting tradition. The AI-produced material is arranged by the human artist in a narrative reflecting on the tenderness of the human body, the implications of AI interacting with it, and the politics of its usage.

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