Alinta Krauth

Resonant Systems (2025) is an experimental 2 channel video. It is a co-production between an artist and Gen AI, in which I allow new and soon to be released OpenAI generative video software to remix my own digital illustrations of Australian native plants and animals, and reimagine them as moving, kaleidoscopic, high-contrast creatures. The collaboration is playful, where I lean into the AI’s interpretations, misinterpretations, and manipulations of my images as prompts, and the visual chaos that ensues. I then further manipulate these outcomes using more traditional editing techniques, to create a storyline in which imagined creatures morph into each other, starting from the microscopic and eventuating in larger mammals and birdlife. Through this I was able to critique the process of working with Gen AI to work towards a subject that is actively being threatened by Gen AI itself - that is, water, land, and biodiversity. It also allowed me to further consider my own role as a creative practitioner and co-conspirator alongside software, by researching how soon-to-be released Gen AI software may affect digital artistic methods and processes. Here, both myself and the AI systems employed are, in our own synthetic and non-synthetic ways, celebrating some of the many things that make Australian native animals beautiful, colourful, and vibrant.

The accompanying soundtrack was created by the artist, predominantly using digitally altered voicework.