Honglin Cai's Hypercinema blog

*  Final Video * At the beginning of the project, we are sure to give our character KIM SUPERMAN a funny story.  Even though the character looks very funny and unserious, we have a more significant concept behind the character. Superman always represents masculinity, but Kim is a sexy icon; we want to combine these two significantly different representative characters.  For the visual of the video, we are very sure about making a comic vibe animation, also has some vintage comic feeling, so we have the perspective of comic version Superman to tell the story.    some footage from comic    During the making of the animation part of the video, we used a lot of taken footage; we kind of wanted to make an appropriation art. We use many nostalgia elements and some familiar elements from some famous places. Like some logos, nostalgia video games, and even the wallpaper of Windows XP as the background. we wish some of the elements could trigger audiences relat...

  The Synthetic media I found is  Machine Hallucination  by Refik Anadol. The work has been on view at Artechouse, a new digital art space in New York's Chelsea Market.  It is a typical synthetic art because the work significantly relies on algorithms, computers, and AI. The reason it is called Machine Hallucination is very much started with the idea of the "mind of a machine" as the Artist said, "if a machine can learning, so can it dreaming?"  Several big screens make the installation in the space to let audiences feel into the artwork. The art piece is very much about data, different algorithms, and machine learning. It starts with 300 million publicly available images of New York City that Anadol and his studio used the neural network and various modifications to find. And also, they took off all the human figures in those data they found. After processing this massive audio and visual data, the StyleGAN algorithm was then programmed to "dream"—bas...