WARPED is a 2024 three-part compilation by artist Guli Silberstein, in which artificial intelligence is used to warp and bring to life static images into creepy, lyric, and hallucinatory scenes. This practice engages with a history of body distortion in painting, from the deformed forms of Francis Bacon to the vertiginous spatial intelligence of Surrealism, and refigures these problems in terms of contemporary context of algorithmic movement and synthetic animation.
Artistic Intervention Based on a photo taken at the National Gallery London, a peculiar occurrence is happening. In a world where everything is remixable, what makes art timeless?
Walled Garden An AI poem about walls between us in relationships, the way they come and go, and the shifts we’re going through.
Overboard When the human body is behaving in unexpected ways, exceeding its physicality to reach new heights, literally, and challenging our perception on the possible.
Guli Silberstein is London-based digital/AI video artist for more than two decades, since graduating with a Master’s degree in Media Studies from The New School New York in 2001. Specialising in VFX, ‘glitch’ art, and AI, he explores how ideas and stories can be translated to moving forms.
His extensive body of work has been showcased and won awards at festivals and exhibitions around the world, such as the WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland, Transmediale Festival in Berlin, FILE in São Paulo and many others, and has been curated and available digitally and physically at Sedition Art, LUMAS Galleries, Artpoint Paris, MakersPlace, Luba Elliott’s CVPR AI Art Gallery, and Dead End AI Gallery Amsterdam.
He has been doing commissions and professional work too, for musicians, festivals, offices etc, including often providing post-production services to Sky, BBC & CNN.
Sharing his video art content regularly on social media, it is followed by a growing community of 250k followers, and has gained almost 200 million views.