How AI drives creativity and business — Picture This (Copenhagen)

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.

Artefacto's participation in Getting Real '26, IDA's (International Documentary Association) biennial conference on the art and industry of documentary filmmaking, at the JANM Democracy Lab in Los Angeles. Two activities: the workshop "AI Tools for Documentary Production" (Jorge Caballero and Anna Giralt Gris), on how filmmakers build —not just use— their own AI tools through "vibecoding"; and the panel "Past the Panic: What Really Matters in AI & Documentary" (with Kat Cizek from MIT Co-Creation Studio, shirin anlen from WITNESS, Anna Giralt Gris from Artefacto and A.X. Mina), on how AI is really being integrated into documentary beyond the panic.

As part of Festival Gabo (Bogotá), Artefacto took part with two activities: a workshop on the use of artificial intelligence in audiovisual production and an Opendocs programme conversation with Jorge Carrión, reviewing four of the project’s short films and the role of new technologies in documentary.