For this artist residency submission, I envisioned a retrospective of the INFERNO parties spanning the years, reimagining the entire photo archive and Instagram posts using AI. By utilizing Stable Diffusion Video (SDV1.1) within a local img2vid ComfyUI workflow, I transformed the photos into short video clips. In other sections, each face detected in the archive was animated and morphed into strobe sequences through a Python script. Additionally, I compiled all the Instagram post captions into a continuous text stream, highlighting in red the mentions of individuals involved in the collective throughout the years.

The concept aimed to recontextualize and inject speculative life and movement into these frozen moments captured over the many years of INFERNO.

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INFERNO, images courtesy of Inferno Archive and Roxy Lee, music by White Prata.