Projects
Algorithmic Cinema
Algorithmic Cinema
This project aims to simulate algorithmic environments as part of a responsive cinematic experience.
Algorithmic Cinema is an immersive moving-image installation that explores how algorithmic systems can become the driver of a cinematic experience. Developed in TouchDesigner, the project combines live-action film with real-time interaction, allowing the installation to respond dynamically to the presence and movement of its audience.
Rather than presenting a fixed sequence of images, the work generates a responsive cinematic environment in which viewers influence how moving images are revealed and experienced. Drawing on motion tracking, sensor-based interaction and generative systems, each encounter produces a unique relationship between audience, image, and machine.
The project investigates how the mechanics of algorithmic recommendation systems might be translated into physical space, transforming passive spectators into active participants. By reimagining the logic of personalised media feeds as an immersive installation, Algorithmic Cinema explores how computational systems shape attention, perception, and becoming through the experience of moving images.
Experiment
£20,000
Meet the artists
Dian Joy
Lead Artist
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Dian Joy is a British-Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working across video, installation, and extended reality, Joy’s practice explores the entanglement of biological and technological systems through a speculative, research-driven approach. Their work critically engages with the ever-evolving terrain of selfhood in the digital era, frequently investigating how the machinic and the embodied intersect within contemporary culture. Bridging theory and praxis, at the core of Joy’s inquiry is an exploration of desire as a subjectivity-shaping force in a world increasingly governed by algorithmically charged media. Through this lens, Joy examines the affective and material dimensions of otherness and power. Never indebted to a darkening horizon, their installations and moving image works cultivate spaces for collective reflection, asking how we indeed make sense amid the ideological forces that shape contemporary life.
Henrique Lázaro
Creative Technologist
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Henrique Lázaro is an artist, creative technologist, and game designer. Its practice orbits epistemological questions, often playing with norms established by the legacy of western enlightenment by embracing fluidity of agents, species, and belief systems, and meandering in their shifting meanings. Laz is designing an attention recognition system driving the algorithmic film sequence.
