Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology

[EN] By the end of 2022, social networks started sharing collections of sophisticated images accompanied by suggestive comments as if they belonged to a forgotten past: photos of interrupted filming, lost ancient movies, modern traditions recreated in archaic settings, etc. However, these astounding...

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Autor: Lorenzo Hernández, María Carmen|||0000-0002-9630-2374
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
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Jodorowsky
Tron
Johnny Darrell
Simulation
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spelling Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technologyLorenzo Hernández, María Carmen|||0000-0002-9630-2374MidjourneyJodorowskyTronJohnny DarrellSimulation[EN] By the end of 2022, social networks started sharing collections of sophisticated images accompanied by suggestive comments as if they belonged to a forgotten past: photos of interrupted filming, lost ancient movies, modern traditions recreated in archaic settings, etc. However, these astoundingly realistic images were but simulations generated by the Midjourney AI, with which users can design pictures from textual descriptions. This article focuses on two series of images devised by Johnny Darrell to recreate a non-existent film: Jodorowsky¿s Tron (2022), as if the Disney film was directed by the visionary Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky. If Disney¿s Tron was known for its pioneering incorporation of computer graphics to recreate the inner world of the computer, the new simulations not only point to how AIs imagine the native environment of the AI but, unexpectedly, we may be seeing the preview of what the next-generation films will look like. Although these stylized visions of science fiction to come are, by the moment, just pictures and not movie pictures, they help us reflect on AI¿s implications in the visual arts and, specifically, about the generation of images that re-create alternative history lines. Likewise, the essay explores Mark Langer¿s suggestions in his article ¿The End of Animation History¿ (2002) about the critical moment that the traditional definition of animation ¿ as opposed to live-action cinema ¿ was going through at the turn of the 21st century. Thus, we will examine how the AI simulations propose a new scenario for our structure of reality.Aristotle. University of ThessalonikiDepartamento de DibujoFacultad de Bellas ArtesGrupo Animación de la Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20242024-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/222891reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada (by-nc-nd) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/2228912026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
title Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
spellingShingle Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
Lorenzo Hernández, María Carmen|||0000-0002-9630-2374
Midjourney
Jodorowsky
Tron
Johnny Darrell
Simulation
title_short Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
title_full Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
title_fullStr Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
title_full_unstemmed Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
title_sort Midjourney, Jodorowsky and the end of reality. Artificial Intelligence as an animating technology
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lorenzo Hernández, María Carmen|||0000-0002-9630-2374
author Lorenzo Hernández, María Carmen|||0000-0002-9630-2374
author_facet Lorenzo Hernández, María Carmen|||0000-0002-9630-2374
author_role author
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Facultad de Bellas Artes
Grupo Animación de la Universitat Politècnica de València
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Midjourney
Jodorowsky
Tron
Johnny Darrell
Simulation
topic Midjourney
Jodorowsky
Tron
Johnny Darrell
Simulation
description [EN] By the end of 2022, social networks started sharing collections of sophisticated images accompanied by suggestive comments as if they belonged to a forgotten past: photos of interrupted filming, lost ancient movies, modern traditions recreated in archaic settings, etc. However, these astoundingly realistic images were but simulations generated by the Midjourney AI, with which users can design pictures from textual descriptions. This article focuses on two series of images devised by Johnny Darrell to recreate a non-existent film: Jodorowsky¿s Tron (2022), as if the Disney film was directed by the visionary Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky. If Disney¿s Tron was known for its pioneering incorporation of computer graphics to recreate the inner world of the computer, the new simulations not only point to how AIs imagine the native environment of the AI but, unexpectedly, we may be seeing the preview of what the next-generation films will look like. Although these stylized visions of science fiction to come are, by the moment, just pictures and not movie pictures, they help us reflect on AI¿s implications in the visual arts and, specifically, about the generation of images that re-create alternative history lines. Likewise, the essay explores Mark Langer¿s suggestions in his article ¿The End of Animation History¿ (2002) about the critical moment that the traditional definition of animation ¿ as opposed to live-action cinema ¿ was going through at the turn of the 21st century. Thus, we will examine how the AI simulations propose a new scenario for our structure of reality.
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