The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.

From Caméra-Stylo to Prompt-Stylo

A few weeks ago I was invited to present some of my work at Caméra-Stylo, a fantastic conference run every two years by the Sydney Literature and Cinema Network.

For this presentation, I wanted to start to formalise the experimental approach I’d been employing around generative AI, and to give it some theoretical grounding. I wasn’t entirely surprised to find that only by looking back at my old notes on early film theory would I unearth the perfect words, terms, and ideas to, ahem, frame my work.

Here’s a recording of the talk:

Let me know what you think, and do contact me if you want to chat more or use some of this work yourself.


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2 responses to “From Caméra-Stylo to Prompt-Stylo”

  1. Karan Avatar
    Karan

    Well done Dan.
    I enjoyed watching your work. Xx

  2. […] name I’ve given my repeatable genAI experiments is ‘ritual-technic‘. These are designed specifically as recipes for generativity (one example here). Primarily, […]

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