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.
Image credit: The Lou Effect
I presented different parts of this work at the Future of Reality: From Locarno to LA conference, which I co-organized, 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.