Versuchsreihe zur Auslotung ästhetischer Möglichkeiten K.I.-generierender Mittel in bildgebenden Verfahren anhand von „Rotkäppchen“
As early as the 1980s, Vilém Flusser described the transition from writing culture to image culture, in which technological images displace texts. This prediction is coming true today, as images disguised as data packets are decisively shaping our actions. They increasingly originate from AI-based image generators that translate language into synthetic images in highly complex, latent spaces, thus re-ordering the relationship between text and image. The artistic experiment titled Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood) was created by “feeding” AI with original prose sequences of the Grimm Brothers and editing the resulting sequences into a film. The project sheds light on the machine-based translation of language into pictures, and understands itself as critically distanced “art about AI” that, in the sense of Flusser, addresses the functioning and power logics of the apparatuses.
