OTS Mixtape // 00 - On These Streets
Video, 2023
About the artwork
"On These Streets" is the video that bridges the still image series of the same name with the OTS Mixtape, and that brings us into a moving world that is at one time familiar and absurd. Entirely artificial images put us in a state of warm nostalgia for a time that was, even though maybe it wasn't exactly like this, proving that AI is a memory machine rather than a form of intelligence. From a technical point of view, "On These Streets" aimed at recreating the same feeling and aesthetics of the still image series while using an entirely different tool. All clips have been created through text-to-video (no img-to-video), requiring a whole different workflow, with the objective of achieving a platform-independent aesthetic.
OTS Mixtape is a video companion to the series "On These Streets", and it's meant as an immersive device to relive those times. It uses a format that is native to the period (music videos) to bring us deep into our memories, while also creating something entirely new.
Sound design by Andrea Ciulu - AI generated music by Andrea Ciulu
Audio explanation
Listen to Andrea Ciulu discuss this work.
Andrea Ciulu was born in Rome, Italy, in the 1980s. With a background as a writer and visual artist, he has been working in the creative industries for the last twenty years in roles of creative direction.
His artistic work is an ongoing exploration of the limits of memory and of our perception of reality: a research conducted by exploiting technology and its intrinsic limits, by mixing the familiar with the uncanny, nostalgia with bewilderment. Andrea’s work has been exhibited in Rome, San Francisco and Mexico City.