#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedImages: "The idea that multiple truths can be drawn from the same material is radiantly explored in the film Eno, which I saw last week. Based on the life of the multitalented music producer Brian Eno, the documentary is auto-generated by a machine and varies every time it is shown.
According to the film’s makers, there are 52 quintillion possible versions of it, which could make “a really big box set”. This artistic experiment tells us much about the nature of creativity and the plurality of truth in the age of generative media.
To make the film, the producer Gary Hustwit and the creative technologist Brendan Dawes digitised more than 500 hours of Eno’s video footage, interviews and recordings. From this archive, spanning 50 years of Eno’s creative output working with artists including Talking Heads, David Bowie and U2, two editors created 100 scenes. The filmmakers wrote software generating introductory and concluding scenes with Eno and outlining a rough three-act structure. They then let the software loose on this digital archive, splicing together different scenes and recordings to generate a 90-minute film."
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