Media artist Derrick Schultz’s film works span 16mm, VHS, generative media and machine learning digital technologies. Comprised of celluloid, torn paper, bleach, YouTube clips, glitch algorithms and an array of AI models, Schultz approaches “modern technology” as anything he can use in the moment. ‍

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Mixed Media is a sampling of 17 time-based works made over the past 5 years.

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PROGRAM:

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5 films from Scream Scenes (2022)

A corpus of corpses. A selection of post-AI experiments from a series of videos-a-day from October 2022.

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Cellular Reconstruction (2023), 2min

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Direct manipulation of a faded educational film using traditional and digital technologies. An exploration of themes on conservation and reinvention, in film, technology, and ecology.

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Floral Zombification via Attention Node Networks (2024), 5min

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Like the cordyceps fungus and their ant hosts, generative machine learning models take control of films of the past to further their own infectious spread.

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Looking 4 U (2021), 3min

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Devoted to the art of moving butts; 2 million vintage dance frames united.

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U Should B Free (2024), 6min

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An inverted Looking 4 U, a dance undetected by modern computer vision.

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#bbvday2022 (2022), 3min

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An audiovisual collage of handmade valentines from a pandemic year of book collecting.

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Anime (2024), 6min

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Moving manga.

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A Film Etched in Bark (2024), 3min

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It’s all just noise.

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NYcelium Network (2023), 5min

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An abstract ode to New York’s artistic analog networks.

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Black Sun Electro Static (2024), 4min

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Neural network neurons printed to film through static electricity.

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• (2024), 9min

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An experiment in meditative and stripped down cameraless filmmaking, edited and sequenced using machine learning models.

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Editation on Violence (Master Edit) (2020–2024), 4min

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A modern remake (in the most Hollywood sense) of Maya Deren’s Meditation on Violence

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Selfie Song (Mixed Reality Edit) (2024), 8min

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An AI film recreated in reality, then returned to the latent space.

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Total run time: ~ 70 minutes

Followed by Q&A with Derrick S

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7:30 PM DOORS

8 PM SCREENING

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Derrick Schultz is a post-AI artist and filmmaker. His practice encompasses media art, computational and photochemical filmmaking, and generative art. His work draws a connection between technologies of the past with technologies of the future, using it to critically assess modern culture and its lineage. His work has been shown at workshops such as CVPR and NeurIPS and for clients such as the New York Times, Sony, and The New Yorker. In addition to his art practice, Derrick teaches generative media courses at NYU’s ITP, as well as private courses and workshops. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two cats.

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Special thanks to Erica Sheu