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Kiss/Crash

Synopsis

The installation triptych employs AI-imagery to explore themes of desire and the expanding gap between real experience and artificial representations in the digital age. The interactive experience consists of three related works that use AI to augment, subvert, and negate the iconic image of the Hollywood kiss. Using a queer lens to appropriate a classic Hollywood aesthetic, the work places AI within the history of image-production technologies meant to incite and homogenize our desires. In the process, it reveals the nature of AI imagery and hints at how our most intimate desires will continue to be stretched and shaped by artificial representations at an accelerating pace.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2020 - XR Experience Special Event- International premiere

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
5 min
Format
Installation
Director
Adam Cole
Producer
Adam Cole
Advisor
Mick Grierson

Genre

LGBTQIA+ Experimental

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Adam Cole Studio

Adam Cole

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