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Generative AI
UX Designer & Creative Director (Generative AI)
Graduate Assistant Project
An AI generated video for the Italian Embassy based on reimagining Michelangelo & Da-Vinci’s unfinished works.
Emerging Forms
My Role
AI Animator and Creative Director (Generative AI)
Team
9 AI Animators
2 AI Video Editors
Tools
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What is it?
Emerging Forms is an AI research project for the Italian Embassy that uses tools like Midjourney and Kling AI to turn Renaissance art into digital animations. Inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, it visualizes the journey of unfinished sculptures as they "emerge" from raw marble into modern code. This project explores how historical human creativity and machine intelligence can work together to create something new.
A Neoplatonis Dialogue Between Matter, Form, AI
“We must not allow what is now permitted. What is that?
That they should linger here...and refuse to go down again among those bondsmen and share their labors and honors, whether they are of less or of greater worth.”
-Plato, The Republic, Book VII, ca. 380 BCE
Video Stills
While this was a team project any images shown below are specifically my work that I created for the video.
Italian Renaissance art meets modern technology
The unfinished sculpture transitions from marble to code
Prompting
There were originally challenges when prompting, especially when I was trying to be specific and consistent, but eventually, as a team, we were able to come up with a system using JSON to get what we were looking for.
More Stills
These are some more stills from the video that I made using Generative AI.
Final Thoughts
This research project allowed me to get a deep understanding of multiple generative ai tools. I learned how to make ai work for me and be consistent and how to get the shots I needed.
Emerging Forms is not a solution or conclusion, but a dialogue - between matter and form, past and future, human and machine.