Post-Animal Fables: Porcus Inflatus
Video, 2023
About the artwork
A fable is a story that uses human-like animals or objects to teach a moral lesson. In 'Post-Animal Fables' I merged CGI visuals and AI storytelling to challenge typical fable narratives, with results that offer almost tangible meaning and moral takeaways that still remain just beyond our grasp.
Procedural CGI video of a pig arrogantly stepping on a golden floor was provided as a prompt to AI to write a story about that visual. The resulting AI-generated story was read by AI actors to create a voiceover, and then the matching soundtrack was generated by AI.
November 2021, Madrid. CGI video driving AI storytelling and AI music. Sound design generated by AI.
Audio explanation
Listen to Dr Formalyst discuss this work.
Dr. Formalyst, a visual artist and AI minimalist, draws on a 25-year background in architecture, design, coding, and teaching. His career explores the psychology of aesthetics, uncovering the reasons behind our brain's attraction to beauty and intrigue. This led to the creation of his alter ego, Dr. Formalyst, devoted to examining the impact of visual elements in their purest form on human perception and emotions.
His artistic focus revolves around creating discordance in viewers by contrasting the emotional responses evoked by a work's form with those arising from the actual subject it portrays. Specializing in video production, Dr. Formalyst merges CGI and AI, employing staged 3D visuals to guide AI interventions. This approach allows him to maintain absolute aesthetic control throughout the creative process to convey complex ideas using the fewest possible visual elements. Navigating the challenges of restraint inherent in AI art, Dr. Formalyst views minimalism as a necessity. For him, anything extraneous to form or concept becomes a superfluous decoration.
Currently based in Madrid, he continues to shape a unique narrative at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence.