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From Zeiss, on AI Endgestalt 1: One of the areas I like to work in is analogue film. I generally shoot 16mm on an old Bolex. My work, AI – Endgestalt 1 – is based on a short 16mm film. I am also quite drawn to a specific field of Artificial Intelligence, i.e. Machine Learning, and the concept of neural networks which are meant to emulate cognitive processes. What intrigues me is that the exact way these neural networks work, i.e. how they get to their output, is not exactly transparent. A man-made machine creates knowledge that cannot be known by man. The transcendental nature of this fascinates me. One of my areas of research in recent years has been the question of how to use AI to extrapolate film. In other words, I’d want to give an AI a film sequence, and it would continue the story. Thisis not possible yet (N.B. I am not talking about text-to-video). What I have done in this video is, with the help of my brother (who works in the field of AI), to extract frames from the original film (https://vimeo.com/433397148) and run them through a so-called generative adversarial network (GAN); the kind of process you have seen already for static images and “paintings”. This is not quite the kind of extrapolation I was talking about, but it is a start.

Richard was born in Vienna, Austria, and now lives in London, UK. He holds master’s degrees in Fine Art, Philosophy, and Economics. Richard has shown his work internationally (e.g. Georg Kargl Fine Arts (Vienna), Gallery Asbæk/AAC (Copenhagen), Da Wang Culture Highland (Shenzhen), and Razklon Gallery (Bulgaria)), and he was featured at Frieze London and ARCO Madrid. He received Arts Council England funding as part of the collaborative duo Duck & Rabbit Projects with Arlene Wandera for their project in Johannesburg. In 2021, his 16mm film “For Agnes & The Sea (No.220)” was shortlisted by the François Schneider Foundation, and in 2022, his film “Lagos” was shortlisted and screened at Experimental Film East Anglia.