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Pareidolia Study no. 5

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  This is the fifth of a series of experiments on the psychological phenomenon called pareidolia. According to Wiki: Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas). Common examples include perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations; seeing faces in inanimate objects. I have been fascinated with this phenomenon for most my life having incorporated it in my art since the early 1980's. Initially, I experimented with creating textures with various photographic processes and pigments on various materials to achieve interesting patterns that could be imagined into interesting works of art. Many of these textures I made on a frosted acetate film and stored in 5x7 negative sleeves. This f...
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Pareidolia Study no. 4

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  An analog texture I made in the early 90's was upgraded using Leonardo's creaive upscaler. I then used Midjourney to create extended videos up to 20 seconds. Starting with the upscaled texture and moving forward in the timeline: The AI generative model was minimally prompted to move. It was left to decide what the image is and what it should do. Each direction was made n 5 to 20 sec. durations. This experiment allows for an in depth look at how AI recognizes patterns and how AI implies motion with the pattern. I fed the image of the woman that Midjourney created in the middle and added her to the beginning and end using Vidu. Video can be found here:
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When Veils Part

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  A texture I made in the early 1990's. I used Midjourney to create a series of videos from this texture with minimal prompting. I then created a story by using Kling. The feature of using start and end frames allowed me  to direct the action. Music was created with Aimusic. I wrote a series of pleas to be left alone that serve as lyrics. Sound effects and background voices from characters were created with Elevenlabs.  It's an expressionistic gesture.  Maya Daren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" was coming to mind on occasion when I crafted this.  Video can be seen here:
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Pareidolia Study no. 3

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  This is the third of a series of experiments on the psychological phenomenon called pareidolia. According to Wiki: Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas). Common examples include perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations; seeing faces in inanimate objects. I have been fascinated with this phenomenon for most my life having incorporated it in my art since the early 1980's. Initially, I experimented with creating textures with various photographic processes and pigments on various materials to achieve interesting patterns that could be imagined into interesting works of art. Many of these textures I made on a frosted acetate film and stored in 5x7 negative sleeves. This f...
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Pareidolia Study no. 2

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  This is the second of a series of experiments on the psychological phenomenon called pareidolia. According to Wiki: Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas). Common examples include perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations; seeing faces in inanimate objects. I have been fascinated with this phenomenon for most my life having incorporated it in my art since the early 1980's. Initially, I experimented with creating textures with various photographic processes and pigments on various materials to achieve interesting patterns that could be imagined into interesting works of art. Many of these textures I made on a frosted acetate film and stored in 5x7 negative sleeves. This ...
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Pareidolia Study no. 1

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  This is the beginning of a long series of experiments. The study's focus is on the psychological phenomenon called pareidolia. According to Wiki: Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas). Common examples include perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations; seeing faces in inanimate objects. I have been fascinated with this phenomenon for most my life having incorporated it in my art since the early 1980's. Initially, I experimented with creating textures with various photographic processes and pigments on various materials to achieve interesting patterns that could be imagined into interesting works of art. Many of these textures I made on a frosted acetate film and sto...
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Iteration-evolution

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  This film study is focused on the iterative process of Al generative video. It involved the following methodology. A key frame from each previous video batch was copied and refined to create the image for generating the next video in sequence. The figures were prompted to run, stop and look, while basic camera movements were also guided.  This film begins my shift into experimentation and away from narrative structures. With the last 13 works I've explored many different options for generative image and video creation. I found that among the AI generative models I used, they each have peculiar trainings and safeguards that prohibit violence, nudity and other sensibilities determined by a range of moral and ethical viewpoints. I was repeatedly stopped and given a warning for content violation. Amusing at first since I was only re-submitting images that the AI generative model generated. Later it became an annoyance and I jumped from many different AI models to achieve this f...
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