Algorithmic Cinema in “Incomplete” – Music Video by Dalena Tran & Ash Koosha
Created by media artist and creative director Dalena Tran, Incomplete is an algorithmically visualized music video for UK musician Ash Koosha‘s track from his 2018 album Aktual.
Ash and Dalena have worked on various audiovisual projects together including Mudafossil, a music video that premiered on Adult Swim in 2016, and Binary Dreaming, a live av performance that was performed throughout Europe and the US in 2016 and 2017. Whether their projects utilize real-time rendering and game engine aesthetics for visual work or immersive VR music albums, their sonic and optic collaborations have been at the forefront of innovative practices in art and technology in the most recent years. Following their avant-garde approach to media and art, Incomplete is the result of Tran’s research and studio practice with experimental methods in open-source imaging software and tools such as Blender, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Image Synthesis. Even with a technical sincerity in mind Dalena’s relationship to the work, having studied film and media arts, is firmly grounded in the cinematic experience.
Much of today’s AI visual paradigm—in movies, games, and computer science — simulates and conceals virtual subjects seamlessly at attempts in immersion and photorealism. In our post-truth reality, there is growing anxiety around the ramifications of powerful techniques in synthetic media; most notably are deepfakes (See: Synthesia.io and This Person Does Not Exist ).
