地穴 Whisper in the Subterranean

艺术家 / Artist

朱浚侨 Kelvin Zhu

年代 / Time:

2023

作品类型 / Medium:

实验影像与生成式影像

Experimental Film & AI Generated Video

 视频时长 / Video Length

19 minutes 44 seconds 

《Whispers in the Subterranean》is an experimental film that combines AI-generated imagery of firelight on cave walls with real-life footage. It explores the state of our existence in the current age, where we are endlessly swept up by fragmented information, and slowly yet calmly accepting this “bed of information.”

Through a video composed of AI-generated image sequences, its infinite expansion represents a visual interpretation of the uncertain variables within its system, constantly stacking on one another. The control over random seeds and the relationship variables between preceding and succeeding sequences is like entering a new parallel universe with every choice. The process can be seen as constructing stable logical clues within ordered chaos.
Even so, through constantly iterating frames, the ending will eventually head towards a predetermined 'future' (a determined key frame). This state is akin to Plato's allegory of the cave, where prisoners in the cave regard the 'shadow' as the world, and the ever-changing firelight behind them casts different forms and possibilities onto the wall's shadows.

Ultimately, the shadow projected onto the wall is still controlled by the projector behind the wall. In today's age of rapid technological iteration, we have adapted to 'information cocoons' and patterned 'thinking paths'. The firelight reflected on the wall has long become a 'scenic illusion' that comforts us in our paradise, and the occasional sounds from outside the 'cave' are regarded by us as the 'delusional whispers' of our minds."

《地穴》通过借由AI生成的壁画火光影像与现实摄影影像的融合，切入了当今时代下被碎片化信息无限裹挟的我们，缓慢且安然接受的信息温床的一种状态。

通过AI生成图像序列所组成的视频，其无限延伸的状态在短片中就如同其系统中的不确定变量在不断经由堆叠后的一种视觉演绎状态。随机种子与前后序列生成的关系变量的控制，像是在每一个选择中进入新的平行宇宙，其过程可以视作在有序的混乱之中构建起稳定的逻辑线索。

即便如此，经由不断迭代的画面，结局最终仍将走向被指定的“未来”（被确定的关键帧）。这种状态恰似于柏拉图所提出的地穴理论，地穴中的囚徒将“影之相”视为世界，其背后始终变化不断的火光给墙面的影子塑造出更多不同的形态与可能性。

但终究，所投射至墙面的影子仍然掌握在墙面之后的投影者手中。在科技高速迭代的今日，我们已经适应了“信息茧房”、模式化的“思维路径”、倒映在墙面上的火光也早已变成了在乐园中的我们聊以慰藉的“景观虚像”、而从“洞穴”外偶然传来的声响，则被我们认为是自我“妄想的低语”。