Category: Hypercinema
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Hypercinema Final
The Tao of Deluge Concept In September of 2024, Hurricane Helene struck the United States, particularly the Southeastern region. This region of the country, a place I call home in East TN and Western NC, is not used to dealing with such a major storm. While away at a school here at NYU, I had…
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Synthetic Media: 2.907 kWh per 1,000 inferences
Concept During our conversation in class last Wednesday, I felt a tension about AI and making art with it. The tension stems from the fact that AI image and video generation use an inordinate amount of electricity. The title of the video, 2.907 kWh per 1,000 inferences, is a reference to a study done by…
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Digital Playthings: AI Chatbots, Dating, and Who is Playing Who
Prompt: These days, AI’s increasing prevalence on the internet makes it more difficult to find any novel use of it. If there is a novel use, all the massive tech companies swoop on it and either replicate it to the nth degree or wall it off for their own private, opaque uses. A lot of…
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Hypercinema Midterm
Created in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects by Justin Johnson and me (Ryan Rotella) Credits Process Our assignment for the Hypercinema Midterm: “Create a short (less than 2 minutes) video in which animation is overlaid onto video to present a speculative future. This future video could be informative, expressive, an interactive game or…
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Sound Collage Project
Group Members The Prompt Our group selected Option A: Sounds for a sound vacation. From our class’s Brightspace: “In teams, collect sounds for a sound vacation. This could be informational, fictional, sensual, spoken-word, musical. It could be about infrastructure, architecture, people, or something completely different. Be specific, and transport us to another location through a…
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