Out Side: Between Art and Hallucination
<p>A young painter named Stone searches for her lost muse and parrot, Petey. Fresh out of art school. Stone stumbles through a daunting world of commercial art and technocapitalism. Along the way she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that stretches to the very roots of reality.</p> <p><em>Out Side</em> embraces the constraints and possibilities of AI art. Faces, hands, and landscapes appear in their raw hallucinated state, forcing us to wonder: in what dimension do the characters live? Why do space and time bend around them? Is this ambiguity unique or an essential quality of all storytelling?</p> <p>As AI systems evolve, we expect to see fine-grained control of generated images and text. Merging narrative and medium, <em>Out Side</em> preserves a pivotal moment for culture, story, image and AI.</p>
Authors: K Allado-McDowell, Ilan Manouach
Editors: K Allado-McDowell, David Desrimais, Ilan Manouach
Editorial Coordinator: Luca Reverdit, Paul Comoretto
Producers: David Desrimais, Emma Zampieri
Proof-readers: Cassandra Katsiaficas