Artificial Cinema at Galerie Tranzitdisplay in Prague, Czech Republic
Artificial Cinema
Artificial Cinema is a large collaborative effort which explores the history of science fiction cinema and its potentials for arriving at a synthesized vision for the future of art. The exhibition traces a trajectory away from “Anthropocinema” — human-centered cinema — towards more open and complex collaborations between humans and machines.
At TranzitDisplay, the first gallery showcases a multi-channel video installation featuring the seventeen most frequently cited films by the participants. The front of the second gallery serves as the projection surface for the project’s algorithmically composed film. The process of composing the film is made possible using multiple software programs which were collaboratively planned and later materialized and built into a logical engine by Tony Yanick, the project’s algorithm architect.