In her 'NanoFictions' series, the French artist Karoline Georges creates portraits of transformation. In one short, 'The Beast,' a burly man mutates from a two-legged human into a hunched, skeletal cat, before morphing into a snarling wolf.
While this work remains dizzyingly eclectic in its stylistic diversity, I would argue that it offers traces of insight into our contemporary world.
I've studied these new works as the co-director of the AI for Media & Storytelling studio at the University of Southern California. Surveying the increasingly captivating output of artists from around the world, I partnered with curators Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells to produce the Flux Festival, a four-day showcase of experiments in AI filmmaking, in November 2024.
With this cultural connection in mind, I see five visual trends emerging in film.
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