PHANTOM FRAMEWORKS
DECEMBER
2024
Phantom Frameworks showed at Serendipity Arts Festival from 15th to 22nd December 2024 at Kala Academy, Goa, as a part of the exhibit ‘Art x Machine’ curated by Mathieu Wothke. Sound Design is by Kavya Trehan.
Best practices for GenAI prompting ask to be clear and descriptive: detailing the lighting, the subject, the camera angles, the whole nine yards. By flipping the script and deliberately being unhelpful with single-word prompts like ‘pillar,’ ‘window’, ‘unfold’, ‘tear’, ‘glitch’, ‘horizontal’, ‘room,’ or ‘escalator’, Phantom Frameworks explores the creative potential and interpretive powers of a generative AI video model, inviting it to breathe figurative motion patterns into still, modular vector art compositions. The question at the heart of the experiment is simple: What does the model see in my work’s abstraction that I don’t? Surprise me. The result is an 8 part series of motion pieces, 20s longs each that exist in a liminal space—partly orchestrated by me using traditional design tools through the ‘starter’ images and partly shaped by the AI’s loosely prompted imagination in the way these images animate.
field AI, Motion
2024
Phantom Frameworks showed at Serendipity Arts Festival from 15th to 22nd December 2024 at Kala Academy, Goa, as a part of the exhibit ‘Art x Machine’ curated by Mathieu Wothke. Sound Design is by Kavya Trehan.
Best practices for GenAI prompting ask to be clear and descriptive: detailing the lighting, the subject, the camera angles, the whole nine yards. By flipping the script and deliberately being unhelpful with single-word prompts like ‘pillar,’ ‘window’, ‘unfold’, ‘tear’, ‘glitch’, ‘horizontal’, ‘room,’ or ‘escalator’, Phantom Frameworks explores the creative potential and interpretive powers of a generative AI video model, inviting it to breathe figurative motion patterns into still, modular vector art compositions. The question at the heart of the experiment is simple: What does the model see in my work’s abstraction that I don’t? Surprise me. The result is an 8 part series of motion pieces, 20s longs each that exist in a liminal space—partly orchestrated by me using traditional design tools through the ‘starter’ images and partly shaped by the AI’s loosely prompted imagination in the way these images animate.
field AI, Motion
