Posthuman Cinema is a collection of ten cinépoèmes that playfully experiment with AI as a form of otherworldly alien intelligence. Language and diffusion models come to life, vis-à-vis original text and image prompts that are designed to situate the works in the history of avant-garde and auteur-driven cinema art. All of the works are intentionally composed as moody black and white films that are reminiscent of the filmmakers that have most influenced the PHC artists including Agnes Varda, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Chantal Ackerman, Maya Deren and Andy Warhol. The imaginary bodies depicted in the AI-generated moving images are haunting, ghostly, uncanny, queer (in many senses of the term) and distorted. These phantom figures that appear to be women, men, trans, and cyborgs, are conceptualized as literal ghosts in the machine or what what Marcel Duchamp, writing about his famous artwork, La mariée mis à nu par ses célibataires, même (La boîte verte), referred to as an "apparition of an appearance." As long-time digital artists with a deep affinity for and knowledge of the history of underground film, art, and literature, the PHC collective strategically uses their poetic art language skills to prompt the various AI systems to generate source material that is then post-produced into a series of artworks that are at times sensual, erotic, mystical, disturbing and ethereal.
The PHC artist collective (Will Luers, Chad Mossholder and Amerika), in human-AI symbiosis, improvises with each other and with AI tools such as RunwayML, Midjourney, ChatGPT, GPT-4 and ElevenLabs to probe a new kind of language-driven cinema art and explore a cinematically manifested collective unconscious.
As remix artists with a deep affinity for and knowledge of the history of avant-garde and auteur cinema, the collective strategically uses their poetic art+language skills to prompt the various AI systems to generate source material that is then postproduced into a series of cinematic artworks. The first ten of these artworks are included in the launch of the Posthuman Cinema website.
Posthuman Cinema led to a new work, DREAM FACTORY (2025), that extends the idea of intelligent apparitions seeking an identity through cinema.
Digital artist, author, filmmaker. Exhibitions include Whitney Biennial, ZKM, Walker Art Center. Author of My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence.
Digital cinema artist, writer, educator (WSU Vancouver). Editor and award‑winning practitioner in computational/AI cinema and electronic literature.
BAFTA‑nominated composer and sound artist. Work spans experimental music, installations, and award‑winning video game sound design.
NON/PHENOMENALITIES. Gallery 120710, Berkeley, July 26–August 30, 2025.
Pixel Perceptions: Into the Eye of AI . Noorderlicht, Groningen, Netherlands, October 26, 2024–January 19, 2025.
More Than Meets AI . Bergen International Film Festival (CDN), Bergen, Norway, October 2024.
International Biennale of Digital Art (BIAN) . Arsenale, Montreal, Canada, May–July 2024.
Noise Fair (NFT sale/exhibition), represented by Kate Vass Gallery. Kadıköy City Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, January 17–21, 2024.
Kate Vass Gallery K011 (NFT sale/exhibition). Online gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, October–December 2023.