Music Video into Post-Classical Cinema

Vernallis, Carol

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766994.003.0003

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“…Suitably, Jacquet-Droz’s doll used a pen in the age of Enlightenment, reflecting the era’s proliferation of writing and ideas, as well as industrialisation. Now, the crayon-like algorithmic tools employed for DALL-E Mini reflect our ‘messy’ digital visual culture or what Carol Vernallis (2013) calls the ‘media swirl’ of ‘scrambled’ internet mashups and cross-media (p.3).…”

Section: Theorising Dall-e Mini Within (Post) Digital Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator

O'Meara

Murphy

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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The emergence in 2022 of surreal and grotesque image sets created using the free online AI text-to-image generator DALL-E Mini (Craiyon) prompts our analysis of their aesthetic content and connections to preexisting media forms and trends in digital culture. DALL-E Mini uses an unfiltered database of images from the internet to create new images based on a user’s text prompt, often resulting in misshapen bodies and impossible scenarios. Despite its technological limitations, DALL-E Mini’s popularity as a meme-making tool is visible on social media platforms, where crowd-sourced images are shared and experimentation with the tool is encouraged. Through comparison with existing artistic practices and formats (creative automata, surrealism, body horror, celebrity memes), we argue that DALL-E Mini creations can be understood as human-AI co-creations and forms of aesthetic mimicry. Building on the ideas of surrealists such as André Breton, we propose that DALL-E Mini’s images, prompts and the grid interface adhere to surrealism’s historical interests in the unconscious, the uncanny, and the collaborative ‘exquisite corpse’ parlour game. We also consider DALL-E Mini’s relevance to the category of ‘AI Arts’, Patricia De Vries’s call for more research that relates algorithms to the broader artistic and cultural contexts in which they are embedded (2020), and the ‘authoring’ of celebrity bodies as data (Kanai, 2016). Our theorisation of DALL-E Mini is supported by examples drawn from social media and personal experiments with the generator. Overall, we propose that internet users’ experimentation with DALL-E Mini corresponds with a cultural moment in which AI imaging technologies are eliciting excitement and anxiety. The outputs are revealed to be reliant on users’ pop cultural knowledge, with DALL-E Mini allowing for a playful, co-creative algorithmic practice, wherein contemporary anxieties about digital labour, (post)digital culture, biopolitics, and global issues are redirected into surreal visual storyworlds.

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Section: Theorising Dall-e Mini Within (Post) Digital Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator

O'Meara

Murphy

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…The demonstration and idealization of an unmediated reaction, via close-ups of the face, as well as through the dynamics and patterns of editing and montage, persists across different modes of media. In each case, there is a drama of visibility, and an "intensity of affect" (Vernallis 2013) that, like the cinema of attractions (Gunning 2006;Korsgaard 2019) shapes our understanding of, and typically plays with, the boundaries between the screen and spectator.…”

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Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium

Bliss

Nansen

2022

Television & New Media

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This paper unearths the archeology of reaction media across cinema, television and the Internet. We show how reaction content exists in high and low modes, tracing their reoccurrence and remediation from art-house and horror in cinema, to television soap opera, to animated GIFS, and YouTube compilations. Because reactions can be readily repackaged and resourced, we argue that they are a form of inter-media; operating in-between media text and media reception; in-between narrative and sensation; in-between authenticity and performativity; and in-between entertainment and resource. Reaction media are a form of sensory media with material properties. The textual and aesthetic richness of reaction content informs their persistent function, allowing for generative repurposing by internet users as a form of cultural expression and also operating as a rich resource of content able to be repackaged by professional content creators for producing economic value.

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“…With the rapid development of the Internet and the continuous evolution of multimedia forms, the sources of information received and obtained by human beings in terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and entertainment have gradually shifted from television and radio to self-media and Livestream, and to various forms of online media [1]. These online media are diverse and can mainly be divided into websites, video platforms, social media, and other categories [2].…”

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Creating a Healthy Life for the Elderly through Participation in Self-Media: A Study on the Demands of the Elderly in Self-Media

Liang

Wang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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In recent years, with the trends in digital media and a shift in the sources of information, self-media has gradually become a unique new type of media with considerable potential. Numerous related studies have also indicated that participating in self-media positively impacts the elderly, especially in self-media regarding healthcare and welfare. However, research has seldom explored the demands and services for elderly participation in self-media. In this study, the research targets were 55–75 years of age, in good health, with a monthly disposable income of more than TWD 30,000 (N = 180). The research methods had two aims: (1) to analyze the current well-known self-media and websites related to healthcare; and (2) via the Kano Model questionnaire, to survey and explore the demand for self-media among the elderly. The results summarize and describe the preferred layout, content items, interaction methods, and information display of self-media content for the elderly. We anticipate designing a self-media website platform that meets the demands of the elderly and that continues to develop into social media platforms and audio-visual content in the future.

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Music Video into Post-Classical Cinema

Cited by 14 publications

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Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator

Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator

Reaction Media: Archeology of an Intermedium

Creating a Healthy Life for the Elderly through Participation in Self-Media: A Study on the Demands of the Elderly in Self-Media

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