Tag: 2001: A Space Odyssey
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An Eternal Tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey
Something uncanny is happening in wrestling. And I heard you enjoy listening to computer music. Watch my AI and entirely found footage film final to find out how it all relates back to rage. Sources: 2001: A Space Odyssey “Monkey Scene” Adobe Generative AI Alex Bernstein at the IBM 704 An IBM 704 computer at…
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Aurora Video Essay on Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
Like many sci-fi films set near an anthropocentric future that have thematic discussions on the isolation nurtured in distant space, the identity crisis raised among clones, the depiction of artificial machines, and their intellectual consciousness, Duncan Jones’ Moon also poses the dire question of what makes a human being, in contrast to a robot AI…
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The Success of AI
In “Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works,” Chloe Xiang explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and their failed ability to explain biased outputs. These processes are deemed opaque as the model itself is a black box. As Xiang explains, it yields an output in which scientists generally accept because it tends to be what “they…
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Week Three Viewer Blog
As a visionary, Kubrick brings out unbridled, often dystopian, fictions of society onto the cinematic screen, as exemplified by A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). As a pragmatist, he obsesses over the details of his films down to seconds and pixels, frequently at the sacrifice of his colleagues. Guided by his passionate…
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Week 3 Reader Blog
Chloe Xiang, “Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works” The article points out an interesting argument that most AI systems are black-box models, which means they are “viewed only in terms of their inputs and outputs”. The problem with it is that “AI systems notoriously have issues because the data they are trained on are…
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Where are the Women?
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) provides plenty of slower moments that force a viewer to reflect. One major question I had on my mind was, Where are the women? The few women in the story barely have any screen time or lines, and are minimal in the grand scheme of the film. In…
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Week 3 Reader Blog
In her Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge essay, Michelson poses that Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey places the viewer in a state of reflexive suspense. She argues that by undermining our “operational reality”, both through literal suspension in outer space, as well as through the constant thematic and plot-driven subversion of expectations,…