Still from Toute la data du monde (Evelyn Kreutzer, 2025)
CinemAI of attractions
As part of my larger work on developing a concept of “videographic memory studies,” my current research project “CinemAI of attractions” applies Tom Gunning’s foundational concept of “cinema of attractions” to the current moment of AI-generated and -impacted audiovisual culture. In connection to this project, I produced the video essay Toute la data du monde (2025, not yet publicly released), which uses AI-generated footage to re-imagine Alain Resnais’ famous essay film Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) in light of the current state of AI and its impact on collective memory, knowledge, and information storage.
I presented different parts of this work at the Cut/generate. Montage and AI conference at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (April 2025), at the Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images conference at luav University of Venice & VIU Venice International University (May 2025), as well as the Jeu de Paume, Paris (April 2025), as part of the screening event Les Chambres Obscures de L'IA #3, co-curated by Johannes Binotto, Evelyn Kreutzer, and Kevin B. Lee at the invitation of Alice Leroy and Antonio Somaini.