Architecture Film Festival London 2021

Shortlisted Films Selection #3 R2

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The festival’s International Film Competition [OPEN CALL] received over 270 submissions from 40 countries worldwide, competing for awards across six different categories.

Dialogic Machines is an ongoing research project in which an Artificial Intelligent system (GAN) is trained as an analytical tool to understand on an objective level the nuanced ways in which we construct, draw, and represent architectural design. The pair of AI models, left and right, are in a state of continuous conversation, allowing them to both propose and respond to what they believe an architectural drawing might be – having been trained on a dataset of over 8000+ unique orthographic architectural drawings. Through this generative conversation and response to each other’s interpretations the machines begin to find differences and commonalities that they believe objectively are worthy of representation and discussion. These images rarely find common ground as fully resolved architectural drawings to the trained eye, instead allowing the machines to become the arbiters of their own understanding of architectural drawing, unbiased by a predetermined representational ideal of the architectural author. As the machines flicker between these abstract images an audio interpretive model begins to signal binary changes as to how they believe their processes are converging and diverging, signalling to the viewer an interpretation of their discourse.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    7 minutes
  • Country
    United Kingdom
  • Director
    Thomas Parker
  • Screenwriter
    Thomas Parker
  • Producer
    Thomas Parker
  • Cinematographer
    Thomas Parker
  • Editor
    Thomas Parker
  • Animator
    Thomas Parker
  • Sound Design
    Thomas Parker
  • Music
    Thomas Parker