The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction

A woman appears to walk down a hallway, then melts into a moonlit sky. A face appears in the dark, contorts into shapes. The animation is based on a 1929 film version of Edgar Allen Poe's story, but its inky and strange visuals are the result of something altogether more modern: machine learning. Each moment of Ridler's film has been generated by artificial intelligence. The artist took stills from the first four minutes of the 1929 movie, then drew them with ink on paper.