THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Interdeviation” (Nov. 15-21)

Written By Michael Workman

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Interdeviation

Description
"Interdeviation" visualizes a world where humans, technology, and nature become inextricably merged. The video blends live action footage taken from the environments surrounding the artist’s home as well as images and footage of the artist herself. This footage was used as reference within generative AI to cultivate new and imagined landscapes as well as speculative human-plant hybrid organisms.

Throughout the experimental video, the recognizable landscapes begin to fragment and evolve, while the environmental soundscape shifts and distorts from grounded and real, to imaginary and ethereal. Layered on top of the environmental audio, the humanoid subjects read out loud the very prompts that altered or generated their image – prompts created with the artist’s ideas filtered through chatGPT, cultivating a closed system of collaboration between artist and machine.

Runtime: 3 minutes, 24 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Jullian Young
Jullian Young is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL where she is an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University. She works with various tools including 3D modeling and digital fabrication, data visualization, interactive technologies, algorithmic processes, animation and techniques in video art. She has exhibited her work in the US and internationally at venues such as Meow Wolf Convergence Station, VivaTech Paris, the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair, Criatech festival in Portugal, Video Art Miden in Greece, the Ars Electronica Festival, and the Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum in Iceland.

Jullian’s work engages with the critical dialogue surrounding networked systems, and our participation as a species with our surrounding landscapes. Her artwork seeks to make connections between ecosystems and organisms that often go unnoticed, and challenge the dynamics of care, control, and power in an interwoven network of creatures that ultimately necessitates balance.

Credits & Specifications
Jullian Young (Director)

Completion Date: May 31, 2024
Country of Origin: United States
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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