Performance & Screening | Human Movie with Eryk Salvaggio
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Still from Human Movie. Two children on a beach seen through digital static.
Is Human Movie actually human?
Video description: Home movies of beach frolic, extreme colour noise effect, gradually becomes clearer….
Audio description: human artist narrates AI video
See Human Movie performed with live narration by the artist and Signal to Noise curator Eryk Salvaggio, including an introduction by NCM's Artistic Director Dr Emily Siddons for the opening weekend of Signal to Noise.
Created from a blend of glitched AI-generated video, archival and found footage, Human Movie decentres machines and draws attention to the limitations and errors of generative AI. We often see AI as an interpretative tool for understanding and filtering noise that is designed to mimic how a human would do so, but how human can it be?
Human Movie: Six Meditations on a Compression Algorithm is a 35-minute video essay contrasting computational processes of diffusion models and the human metaphors used to describe them. Learn more about Human Movie here .
Speakers
Dr Emily Siddons
Introduction
Dr Emily Siddons is the Co-CEO and Artistic Director of the National Communication Museum. She is currently leading the strategic vision and development of this significant new museum that is opening later this year. Previously, she was Producer of Exhibitions at Museums Victoria, where she led the creative development and production of major exhibitions and experiences across the museum’s three sites. She has also held positions as Producer at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Public Programmer at The National Gallery of Victoria and Associate Curator for Liquid Architecture. She is currently a Peer Assessor for Creative Australia, Chair of the Creative Infrastructure Committee and Arts Advisory Board Member for the City of Great Dandenong. She recently completed a PhD at The University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, exploring new models of engagement for museums in contemporaneity.
Eryk Salvaggio
Human Narrator | Artist | Curator
Eryk Salvaggio is a researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and the transformation of archives into datasets for AI training: a practice designed to expose ideologies of tech and to confront the gaps between datasets and the worlds they claim to represent. A blend of hacker, researcher, designer and artist, he has been published in academic journals, spoken at music and film festivals, and consulted on tech policy at the national level. He is a researcher on AI, art and education at the metaLab (at) Harvard University, the Emerging Technology Research Advisor to the Siegel Family Endowment, and a fellow and top contributor to Tech Policy Press. He holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University.
Accessibility
Seminar Room
- NCM is fully wheelchair accessible
- This program includes seating for all participants
- All gender and accessible toilets available on both levels
- Hearing loop available
- NCM is a high sensory space with a variety of noise and lighting
- If you have any other access needs we can help with, please get in touch, we'd love to help
