Experiments / Film & interpretation
The Blind Oracle
One sound. Two worlds.
I gave an artificial intelligence the soundtrack of a real-world event while withholding the images.
The machine reconstructed a world it could not see. What it invented became as interesting as what it correctly identified.
A film about perception, imagination, uncertainty and the authority of a convincing story.
Original recorded world
AI-imagined world
The AI received the soundtrack while the recorded images were withheld. The boat and rope belong to its reconstruction; the later questioning asks what supports the interpretation of an invented rope.