AI x Design Slow AI Festival: Human Presentation

May 3, 5:30 to 6pm, Loods6

Eryk Salvaggio’s latest film, Human Movie: Six Meditations on a Compression Algorithm, has already won awards in AI and non-AI film festivals, and been presented at film screenings around the world. For the AI x Design Slow AI Festival, Salvaggio will perform a live reading of the video essay over the original film and soundtrack.

Created from a blend of glitched AI-generated video, archival and found footage, Human Movie is not about machines at all, but rather, seeks to assert a humanist counterfactual to comparisons between human thought and the limited capacities of generative AI. The film approaches these metaphors at face value, but slowly peels back the superficial nature of such comparisons to examine the nuance, and appeal, behind the comparisons of humans and today’s computer systems.