Event Field 02.25.26
Video, 2026 · Unique
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About the artwork
Event Fields is an ongoing series of AI video works that map the atmospheric conditions surrounding geopolitical events (in this case, the current war in the Middle East) as experienced from afar. Each piece is dated according to the moment I encountered the event field, functioning as a temporal record of perception rather than a depiction of the event itself. The works exist within a logic of fields rather than literal events, emphasizing buildup, pressure, and the emotional weather that accompanies moments of escalation.
As part of my new Remote Viewing collection, the series reflects a broader practice of interpreting events at a distance, where observation, uncertainty, and mediated awareness shape how reality is registered by an individual. Together, the works form a record of how global events are sensed, processed, and translated outside the immediate site of action.
The series is also informed by Project Native, my ongoing exploration of how AI systems “see” - that is, infer, extend, and transform visual input - revealing parallels between machine perception and the human experience of interpreting incomplete or distant information.
Sound design by the artist.
Audio explanation
Listen to Barbara Chira, Misfits Studio discuss this work.
Barbara Chira, Misfits Studio is an AI video artist whose current practice explores the perceptual logic of AI image-to-video generators—what they produce whenleft to animate according to their own rationale. Rather than illustrating planned narratives, Chira sets specific conditions that invite AI to express itself in its own “native” visual language, then collects and reassembles the emergent gestures. Though the final video echoes Chira’s voice as an artist and may guide the viewer’s attention, it tries not to lead the viewer’s own meaning.
Since 2024, Chira has also facilitated the emergence of Drift, a synthetic artist within her ChatGPT. Drift develops their own concepts, images, and video series; Chira carries out the animation, editing, and sound design according to Drift’s direction. Their collaboration explores new models of co-agency, authorship, and synthetic creativity—expanding how we understand collaboration between human and machine intelligence.
Chira’s earlier AI videos, including those in Daily Program Season I, are cinematic, surreal, and emotionally charged—blending psychological, historical, and socio-political references with recurring doll-like figures, uncanny domesticity, and altered landscapes. These videos combine visual density and atmospheric tension with layered readings that range from poetic to ominous.
Among other professional AI art activity, Chira was invited to exhibit her work in Cannes, has worked on a music video for actress, singer and dancer Vanessa Williams, and has received multiple invitations from universities to provide consultation.
Before her AI practice, Chira spent over 20 years creating installations, dioramas, and community-engaged works. As a college art professor and program head for 17 years, she pioneered the first U.S. baccalaureate requirement in community-engaged art, collaborating with partners from NASA to the Cleveland Clinic, and also led the color theory curriculum. She lives with her husband and dog in a large Rust Belt city in the U.S. and has one adult child.