Limit of Control (Bitform Gallery NYC)
by Marco Brambilla

Limit of Control presents a hyper-saturated vision of America’s media landscape, offering a portrayal of society, power, and individual consciousness. Scenes of civil unrest from Hollywood films were sourced using AI and then assembled employing the rapid-fire editing techniques from Brambilla’s 2004 Sync series. Limit of Control is an impressionistic narrative that captures the contemporary spectacle of the American 24-hour news cycle, bookended by AI-generated poetic imagery. The work weaves together Hollywood’s theatrical depictions of protest and civil disobedience with actual news feeds to create a two-channel looping video that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, news and entertainment. The soundtrack is sampled from music cues and sound effects from recordings of actual protests using AI software to create a sound collage as the final composition.

Made with Stable diffusion (ComfyUI)
(2024)