Video essay on the boundaries of the public and the personal in art, created with the help of artificial intelligence and an artist.
In 2023, I asked AI to write a manifesto for a contemporary artist. Since AI uses human-created content as a resource, this text appears as a unified contemporary art discourse artificially composed by a machine, and becomes a manifesto of everything and nothing. This manifesto is an unbound text and can be neither the manifesto of a single artist, nor the manifesto of all artists, nor the manifesto of anyone.
I transform the manifesto into a film, creating a video essay full of metaphors based on contemporary dance practices as a leading medium. Using a variety of intuition-filming and AI-generating techniques, I guide the audience through a non-logical sequence of visuals accompanied by a voice reading the Manifesto of Nothing. This experimental film is an allegorical comparison of public and personal, generative and consumptive, artificial and natural.
"Manifesto of Nothing", trailer
"Manifesto of Nothing" is only available for private screenings. If you would like to see the film or show it at your event, please contact me.