Infinite loop – AI Endless Exploration is Blending Pixels’ contribution to the Medimex 2024 edition, which focuses on Artificial Intelligence as one of its central themes.
In this Projected AI Experience, we explored and aimed to represent how Artificial Intelligence can inspire new forms of artistic and audiovisual expression, transforming how we create, perceive, and experience images and music.
From Wikipedia:
In computer programming, an infinite loop (or endless loop) is a sequence of instructions that, as written, will continue endlessly unless an external intervention occurs, such as turning off power via a switch or pulling a plug. It may be intentional.
The final words of this sentence appear both frightening and ironic at the same time.
The development and dissemination of machine learning models can be likened, in terms of impact and disruption, to the invention of the printing press, photography, or cinema. Some innovations, which accelerate change and thus can be frightening, are cyclically repeated, triggering true cultural revolutions.
The invention of photography and its consequent spread of technical reproducibility raised fears among artists and art critics, leading them to think that the phenomenon could render painting obsolete and undermine artistic creativity.
On the contrary, the evolution of photography expanded the field of art production, influencing the development of new artistic movements, such as Impressionism, a pioneer of modernity. Today, photography plays a central role in our visual culture and language.
Just as the spread and growth of photography and cinema have changed how we tell stories, AI is changing how we create and interact with art and music.
The exploration is endless for those who don’t stop at the first generated results, which are pretty unpleasant:
Experimentation is fundamental: a participatory act in the creation process. Thus, we have tried, mindful of ethical implications, to push the limits of what generative AI models can offer. While these models are very effective for generating images, they must still be more efficient and challenging when creating videos.
In this Projected AI Experience, we explored and aimed to represent how Artificial Intelligence can inspire new forms of artistic and audiovisual expression, transforming how we create, perceive, and experience images and music.
It is a frontier with constantly advancing boundaries: what was once considered impossible is now within our reach, opening doors to infinite possibilities. Some of these, as proposed by the generative process, were integrated into our project. However, we had to discard most of them because they were incongruent, deformed, or inconsistent with the assigned instructions.
Shaping the theme of AI represents a necessary step in Blending Pixels’ path of experimentation, a step in a journey that began before AI became mainstream.
Our narrative begins with a man – a representation of humanity – moving through a rapidly transforming world.