The Video Essay Podcast Cinema & Machine Vision: Live at The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence w/ Daniel Chávez Heras
Jul 23, 2024
Daniel Chávez Heras, a lecturer at King's College London and author of a critical work on AI and film, discusses the intersection of technology and cinema. The talk during the King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence dives into the concept of machine vision and its effect on human perception. They explore the challenges of AI in filmmaking, including issues of representation and narrative. Chávez also addresses the evolving nature of cinematic storytelling in the digital age, raising questions about the future of film criticism and viewer experience.
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Data and Aesthetics
- Analyzing film as data requires a computational theory of spectatorship.
- Viewership and the "invisible traces" of watching are crucial for understanding aesthetics.
Synthetic Time in Jaws
- Chávez Heras recreated the dolly zoom effect from Jaws using AI.
- This demonstrates "synthetic time," where time is predicted, not recorded.
Borges and Film Libraries
- Access to vast film libraries, while exciting, can be overwhelming.
- Chávez Heras uses the Borges story as a cautionary tale.
