The Dark Rooms of AI ♯4: Potential Stories – Excavating Memories

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.

The first synopsis of Alain Resnais's film, written with Remo Forlani, suggests more than one analogy with artificial intelligence: like it, the national library processes an unlimited amount of data, which it collects, catalogs, and classifies, in order to promote the generation of new content. But what faces and stories of humanity does this machine invent, which substitutes its memory for ours? Echoing Resnais's reflections, Arthur Chopin and Eryk Salvaggio each offer epistemological reflections on AI, based on its biases and limitations, while, in the 1970s, Otto Beckmann generated his first computer images using a machine, the "ai70," designed by his son Oskar to serve utopian and dreamlike structures.

This series is conducted in conjunction with “The World According to AI” exhibition, which runs April 11 to September 21.

On the program:

• Alain Resnais, All the Memory of the World (1956) 20'

• Arthur Chopin, 512×512 (2024), 20'

• Eryk Salvaggio, Human Movie: Six Meditations on a Compression Algorithm (2025) 35'

• Discussion With Alice Leroy, Arthur Chopin and Eryk Salvaggio