25+yr contemporary artist, former college art prof. Now AI video. Citizen OSINT. NFTs on @FellowshipAI. Facilitator of @Drift_Artist. CPP: Leonardo, Pika.
experiment, Event Fields
a type of report on the emotional weather of war
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the keyframe still images used to create this gif-like loop were made with AI by blending and degrading several image prompts into mashups, such as screenshots from live webcams of Beirut today, and from seemingly contradictory social media posts today from the POTUS and Israeli PM, regarding the status of Israel’s plans to strike Beirut. the resulting keyframes therefore contained no original source material.
Happy to have collected this piece, #8, from @canekzapata’s new series, “Pequeñas acumulaciones de aerosoles atmosféricos”.
As Canek quoted Brouwn in his project statement: “the sky is perhaps the most complex generative art system on Earth”.
House Always Wins is a new project that I’ve been working on, off and on, for 2-3 months
it’s a satellite project that kind of orbits the unfolding Remote Viewing/Event Fields war series, but related specifically to the gamification of war
above is one of the experiments, none of which may make it into the final cut
DAY 10 of making a feature film with AI in 30 days. Today I show a clip of my film and discuss censorship.
As always, the prompts from today's video are in the description under the YouTube version linked below.
You probably saw the Black Forest Labs post with Martin Scorsese, right? He’s only one of several Hollywood directors who have been voicing favorable opinions regarding AI in filmmaking. But there are just as many, if not more, uneasy or opposed. That’s Hollywood. I don’t know about indie directors here in the U.S.
🫴 Artists You Need to Know: @canekzapata
Canek Zapata is an editor, curator, and internet artist whose work moves between poetry, code, automated writing, net art, glitch, memes, and synthetic images. His practice looks at how digital systems shape language and perception, and how the internet becomes a space for new forms of art, memory, and imagination.
With his latest launch on Daily, here’s a look at his journey ↓
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Ahead of the launch of “Pequeñas acumulaciones de aerosoles atmosféricos” we invite you to join a special X Space celebrating the new collection by Canek,
As part of our ongoing artist conversations with the Daily Program, we’ll chat with Canek Zapata about the ideas, inspirations, and creative process behind the collection, as well as his broader artistic practice. We’ll also explore how he navigates the evolving world of AI video and still images.
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