Domenico Dom Barra

A collection of videos to explore the essence of art, humanity, and the boundless possibilities of creativity. This playlist is a journey into symbiotic relationships, where glitches become breakthroughs and machines amplify our perception. What happens when AI challenges our notions of art and existence? I navigate this evolving landscape to redefine what's possible.

The Symbiotic Algorithm

computer graphics

glitch art

computer animation

data visualization

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The Horror is in the Body

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ERASED HUMAN

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DNAi - New Life

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DXM - Liquid Dream

The work draws on the visual and conceptual language of body horror, a genre that exposes the fragility and malleability of flesh, the body as an altered state. Here, the body is a substrate for manipulation—a prototype to be assembled, dismantled, and reconfigured at will. This vision is informed by contemporary debates around medical research, cosmetic and other products sold on our supermarket shelves, and the commodification of bodies, as well as the rise of AI and synthetic biology and synthetic body, synthetic life. I am particularly interested in the ethical and philosophical implications of treating the body as pure flesh, stripped of identity, agency, and value, or maybe the birth of a new flesh with new meanings, where identities are constantly mutating, a new agency and a new value of the body and life itself. The horror, I argue, is not inherent in the body’s form but in the ways it is used, abused, and transformed by external forces; the horror explodes from the inside out. The AI-generated audio, with its haunting, unintelligible whispers, further destabilises the viewer’s sense of reality, evoking the uncanny and the monstrous. What's that voice saying? It's a confession? A prayer? A call for mercy? A cryptic hymn of freedom?



The video was made by generating with AI all of the elements of the composition. This video compositing animation was then glitched using the PRORES video codec in .AVI format. The audio was generated using AI.