Hailuo Minimax / Artefacto Lab #1 [MADRID / BARCELONA]

Workshop on artificial intelligence tools applied to creativity, given in Lima as part of MUTA, the International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation.

MUTA works specifically with found footage, re-editing and the reuse of other people’s material, a terrain where machine learning tools fit almost naturally. Recognising, classifying and retrieving images inside a large archive is exactly the kind of task these systems handle well, and audiovisual appropriation has been solving it by hand for decades.

The workshop was set up as a practical introduction for creators, across three sessions in July 2020, in the middle of cultural activity adapting to remote work.

It belongs to the training strand Artefacto and Gusano Films develop in Latin America, which has passed through the Cinemateca de Bogotá, DOCSDF in Mexico and festivals in the region interested in the crossing between archive, technology and documentary creation.

Second edition of Sessions Artefacto, a professional gathering at the Artefacto studio dedicated to exploring the integration of computational models and machine learning into audiovisual creation. From the 3rd edition onwards, Sessions will run together with Cuerpos Conectados (University of Barcelona), a research and artistic-practice project on self-representation, identity construction and its social impact in audiovisual and transmedia creation around the body and identity.

First edition of a series of sessions to present projects, receive feedback, and connect with peers working at the intersection of cinema and tech.