MeCCSA Film Conference (Ai)
Title: State of the art in creative technologies practice: mAIchinima
Prof Tracy Harwood explored trends and applications of AI technologies for virtual production and machine-cinema creative practice. She drew on recent examples to discuss emergent issues and reflect upon the direction of travel for AI arts.
Scarlett’s Voice: Audio Cloning in the context of Science-fiction discourse
“I am currently working on a video essay that serves as a research tool and pedagogic device, demonstrating the use of AI in the creative and academic exploration of artificial voices in science-fiction cinema. The essay is structured with an AI narrator, which adds a layer of reflexivity, engaging the viewer in a meta-narrative that examines the interactions between human and machines through synthesised voices.” – Dario Llinares.
She-Samurai – An Eco-Feminist Exploration of AI Film Production
“This research asks whether using AI to aid storytelling skews representations of women. Drawing on her decade long martial arts practise, Battodo Fudokan, Japanese Sword, Meloni’s current project, explores a ‘way’ to experience the body through the potent metaphor of the female Samurai.16Working with ‘Midjourney’, AI image generated technology has enabled both researcher and filmmaker to generate and test new storytelling forms and artefacts using AI. However, complex issues around age, gender and representation are mirrored back to us in the content generated. This mirrors and informs Deleuze and Guattari’s black hole/white wall system which describes the black hole of subjectivity and a wall on which our identities are inscribed. Findings from the project will be presented to inform filmmakers engagement with AI.” Meloni Poole.
