latent.video — AI Video Hackathon
“Latent” registers something already there. In generative AI, this condition is literal. Images form first in latent space, suspended as probabilities. How can we play in the space between intention and output?
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The week opens online with Anyi Rao (ControlNet, AnimateDiff) on moving AI video tools toward more intentional, iterative filmmaking—and what that shift reveals about creativity, authorship, and the interval between what you intend and what appears.
Join us on for a dynamic full-day AI + video hackathon: with a keynote from MYStudio, folx working at the edge of the field; experiment with contemporary AI video tools, thanks to support from Krea; stick around for an evening screening of the works created and awards with local Chicago media artists.
Imaging and Interactivity in the Age of AI
theme reveal · team wrangling
teams will have 3 hours to create a short video
Through case studies from MYStudio and MIT, this talk explores how generative AI, immersive environments, and interactive systems are reshaping image-making, theatrical expression, and spatial storytelling across film, performance, installation, and hybrid media.
