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Nick Land's Meltdown AI-fication is an audiovisual adaptation of the foundational 1994 accelerationist essay that harnesses artificial intelligence to transform its poetic speculations on technocapital singularity into an experimental "schizofilm". Utilizing text-to-image, text-to-video, and text-to-music AI models, each sentence from the essay serves as a prompt for generated content, while deepfake technology recreates the author's narration, resulting in an hour-long video that blends elements of music video, essay, sci-fi, and documentary. The work aims to clarify accelerationism's critical and anti-humanist roots, explore the interplay between theory-fiction and AI, and reimagine schizoanalytic methods in cinematic form. Conceived as a hyperstitional artifact, it provokes discussion on creativity, philosophy, and human-AI relationships in our accelerating technological landscape.
Kosmas Giannoutakis is a composer, media artist, computer musician, and researcher based in upstate New York. He engages in artistic and scholarly endeavors that explore contemporary advancements in technology, such as Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technology, as well as theoretical concepts including critical posthumanities and speculative materialisms.
His artist output includes a wide range of acoustic and electroacoustic music genres such as acousmatic music, film music, robotic and interactive sound installations, audiovisual game performances, algorithmic and computer-generated compositions, concert installations, live-electronics, live coding, telematic performances, systematic processes of collaborative composition and Machine-Learning generated media.
His works have been presented at various international festivals and conferences.Â
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