This blog post was originally written in July 2019.
I love working with musicians helping them to create visual counterpart to their music. In the past, I used to work with black metal genre a lot, which is using a very distinctive dark aesthetics. The black & white grainy low-quality imagery that the Norwegian black metal bands used on their album covers in the 90s was corresponding with the specific raw sound of their music and could be achieved by reusing the analogue technique over and over again. Working with digital tools nowadays, trying to achieve this washed out low-quality…
It’s 2020; deepfakes are still significant media sensations and definitely unsettling news for most people. However, what’s still generally understood as deepfakes is merely just a tip of an iceberg.
This iceberg is called synthetic media. Instead of ice, it consists of not-yet materialized potential of its possible applications in a broad scope of fields: creative industries, advertising, and our daily communication. We might have happened to be on a luxury cruise ship, blinded with nostalgia for the times when things were more transparent and understandable and sailing with full speed toward the scary deepfake iceberg tip. Sorry to interrupt…
This article is a report from the workshop on brainstorming the future scenarios for synthetic media called “Collective Vision of Synthetic Reality”. For the first time at Ctrlz.AI Zine Fair in January 2020 in Barcelona, the workshop was held as an off-site event alongside the 2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), an interdisciplinary conference focused on understanding and mitigating the harms of data-driven algorithmic systems.
We are currently witnessing a fast expansion of AI-generated synthetic media circulating the Internet, including random fake information such as deepfakes and other purposely altered visuals. The quality of artificially synthesized media…
Lenka Hamosova
speculative & critical design | transparency of visual communication | future of synthetic media
