描述
Contemporary Video Art with AI Aesthetics. This is not made with AI tools.
"The encounter between AI and aesthetics is crucial because aesthetics is considered a quintessentially human domain. Its intractability and complexity have long appeared as insusceptible to algorithmic reduction. For some, art, aesthetics, and creativity are the pinnacle of human abilities and therefore represent a final bulwark against the seemingly unstoppable advances of AI. In other words, this complex field becomes the ultimate testing ground for AI’s possibilities and limitations."
-Lev Manovich
The Daily AI Video Program proposes a series of questions about AI video production. What is the basic grammar of this new medium? What similarities and differences exist with previous video art practices? How do synthetic aesthetics relate to digital video creation? What are the aesthetic precedents of these new algorithmic moving images? What are the commonalities between these different tools, and what new unique opportunities do they offer artists? Can artists use these tools to question authorship and the myth of human creativity? In asking these questions, we are proposing expanding our curatorial project to include creators who stand in the middle ground between contemporary video and new AI video art. A space that will help spawn some answers and new questions about AI video art and its future.
The first artist we are presenting in the Daily Program that expands our curatorial explorations is the Japanese artist nouseskou. In his work, he crafts unique visual intersections where technology and human expression converge. We find his work, deeply embedded in the explorations of dance, the body as art, nature, and technology. His visual experiments share an underlying kinship with contemporary AI video art through the lens of innovation, memory, and the transformation of the familiar into the abstract.
Both nouseskou's creations and AI video art thrive on the manipulation of imagery, distorting and reimagining figures and landscapes into new, often unrecognizable forms. This abstraction serves as a canvas for exploring deeper themes—memory, identity, dependence on technology, and the passage of time—inviting viewers to engage with the art as a proposition that technology can become a bridge between the tangible and the ethereal, between the artist's vision and the audience's perception.
We find that his work also embodies a dialogue with the past, drawing from his interactions with the serene natural landscapes of Kyoto to the dynamic realms of street and contemporary dance. The work is ultimately a manifestation of a palimpsest of ideas and experiences that echoes the way AI video art depends on referencing and reinterpreting past images. The convergence of nouseskou's video artwork raises similar questions about the future trajectory of video creation that AI video is presenting to viewers and creators today. As technology becomes increasingly entwined with artistic expression, the boundaries between creator and creation blur, prompting a reevaluation of authorship and authenticity.
Sound design by nouseskou
