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Daily Program / Season #2
Feb 26 - Oct 7, 2025
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“We need to pay attention to what artists are doing. They have the sensibility to foresee where our world is going, and we need to support their visions.“
- Alejandro Cartagena
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The Daily Program Season 2 follows from the first year of the Fellowship Daily Program, showcasing outstanding works from select artists who emerged during the inaugural period. Each month, we curate exceptional artworks, still images, GIFs, and videos, from this talented group, presenting them prominently in the first week of each month.
The Fellowship Daily Program's first year was dedicated to AI video, documenting one of the medium's most rapidly evolving periods. With contributions from 137 artists worldwide, creating over 3,500 unique works, the program stands as a comprehensive exploration of AI video's technical, aesthetic, and conceptual advancements from 2023 to 2024. Artists experimented boldly, from SORA to text-to-story narratives, significantly advancing their individual voices and the capabilities of the medium.
Looking forward, the Daily Program Season 2 focuses on a carefully chosen group of artists whose exceptional potential we are committed to supporting through dedicated curation, mentorship, and promotion throughout 2025. As AI tools rapidly evolve, these artists are at the forefront, exploring new dimensions within their creative practice. The Daily Program Season 2 provides a supportive platform for artists to share their evolving journeys, breakthroughs, and ongoing dialogues with both their peers and collectors.
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Riccardo Silano
GROWING UP
2025
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Artwork ID
9
A visual chronicle of draconic metamorphosis that traces the complete lifecycle from fragile egg to fully realized, paired creature.
Growing up in Italy, for me "chimera" always meant an illusory condition or destination that people dream of and chase, even when they lack the means to achieve it, like a blinding desire unaware of actual context. While experimenting with video inpainting, which should rely on proper context for its designed functioning, I naturally began building text prompts around this mythical creature: an unleashed being caught between abomination and myth.
By misusing the interface, selecting the entire canvas to be inpainted instead of specific areas, I discovered something unexpected. Without any usable visual context to guide it, the system began unveiling previously hidden latent spaces that were surprisingly coherent and hyper-detailed.
Pushing Pika 1.0 beyond its designed parameters exposes a specific visual pattern unique to this stress condition, the distinctive way this particular model reconstructs reality when stripped of its contextual anchors.
My focus on proprietary video models stems from a sense of urgency. These commercial systems are fragile and ephemeral, subject to corporate decisions about availability and updates. They can disappear entirely as AI technology evolves toward standardization, taking their unique visual signatures with them. CHIMERA becomes both my subject and my method, an impossible creature born from impossible technical conditions, perfectly representing the fleeting nature of these early AI systems themselves.
AI generated soundtrack by Riccardo Silano
Additional sfx arranged and manipulated by Riccardo Silano
Listen to an Audio Reflection from Riccardo Silano discussing this work.