AbsentiaCore

The work explores how the early aesthetics of artificial intelligence (distorted faces, blurred bodies, uncertain pixels) gradually became objects of nostalgia. It recalls a time when AI was imperfect and, precisely because of that, reassuring. Beneath the hyper-realistic transparency of newer generations of images, there remains a longing for that artificial grain: an absence transformed into an affective memory of what the market inevitably renders ephemeral. - Credits: the sound was composed and produced by Alessia Ribalcenco.