Presented as part of This is a guide on how to destroy art, and it was made with the assistance of multiple AI models. The narrator, a voice hinting at the manipulativeness of algorithms, prescribes a series of absurd steps that hardly reach their goal. Can art indeed be poisoned by media narratives or drowned in a sea of criticism? Can even the powers yet unknown to man truly dismantle art and melt individuality into something homogenous, or is that in itself a creation of a specific individual form? Even if one acquires all the destructive force there could ever be and fracture the universe, wouldn’t that just push the elements to transform themselves into a new creation? A process that is also mirrored by AI models when they break down existing structures so that they can reassemble them into unique forms, doing so at the best of their capabilities. Artistic expression might be the most primordial and indestructible of all laws of being, a foundation for everything that exists, which reveals itself when is acknowledged.
This short animated film was made in Runway for GEN:48 2nd edition, a two-day short film competition, during which you had to come up with an idea, write a script and realize it within 48 hours.
AI-generated images were made using Midjourney and animation and audio-narration was completely done in Runway. Sound design was made using sounds from Nasa, Freesound.org and Epidemic Sound’s libraries.
About the Artist
Veronika Pell is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary artist and works with AI under the pseudonym Mindeye.
She calls her approach “growing imagery” and explores the contrasts of existence, questioning the boundaries we create between the natural and artificial. Mindeye weaves dreamlike, fairy-tale narratives that fluctuate between dark and divine elements, often blending the two in a playful manner.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__mindeye___/