Guli Silberstein

Imagine a World, October 2022

AI-generated video (text-to-image, text-to-text, and text-to-voice; video editing software, visual effects software)

London-based artist Guli Silberstein has been creating digital video artworks for over twenty years. He is inspired by dreams, visions, and memories that manifest in glitched moving images that continuously transform and evolve. Imagine a World brings these Surrealist ideals of the unconscious mind into the present; the video visualizes a dreamlike journey through otherworldly landscapes and futuristic figures. By engaging with the art historical depictions of Surrealist imagery, the subconscious of AI tools, and his own personal experiences, Silberstein creates a multifaceted video project that allows the viewer to “imagine a world where technology is advanced beyond our wildest dreams.”

View work at: https://makersplace.com/product/imagine-a-world-1-of-1-449653/

Artist Bio

Guli Silberstein is a London-based artist and filmmaker creating digital art works since 2001, when he graduated from The New School University (NYC, USA) with a MA in the Media Studies program. He primarily works with found footage, 'glitch' and Artificial-Intelligence. His work has been shown in many festivals and art venues, including: WRO Media Art Biennale Poland, Transmediale festival Berlin, Jihlava International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts USA and the Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh. In addition, his work has been curated online, including: Sedition Art London, the NFT platforms Foundation and MakersPlace, and Luba Elliott's Computer Vision Art Gallery.

José Sarmiento-Hinojosa once wrote: "In Silberstein’s works, the image error or glitch is always representative, a phantasmagoric presence of sorts, evoking the spiritual, the political, the intimate, the human: it’s the activity of mankind at its most critical, involved in war, conflict, acts of resistance, but also in the intimate, the tender and its relation with nature."