field, sky, body, mind (2022) is a short-film written by myself, and co-written by
a pre-chatGPT text-based artificial intelligence program(1)
Inferkit, a creative text generator, now deactivated
inferkit.com
. Its visuals are shot
in real-life, but modified using a custom program I designed that adapted an
early image generation program to process video(2)
VQGAN + CLIP by Katherine Crowson
View Colab
.
The beginning of the script was created out of a stream of consciousness
writing exercise that led me into innocent imagery of being alone on a yellow
field under a blue sky.
Converting this stream into a poem, and feeding it into a primitive generative
text program, however, quickly stripped it from its innocence. Immediately,
the AI injected the poem with visceral feelings of fear, of not being able to feel
its hands, of blood, and of atrophy.
What followed was an evolving exchange between myself and this digital entity.
The field, initially a serene and personal landscape, became a mutable,
subjective space – one that brought me solace but, for the AI, fear and dread.
This process of collaborative writing led me to reflect on the nature of human
and machine consciousness, the origins of reverie, and the mechanics of eidetic
memory.
The soundtrack for this film was created and composed byTom Sarram.
