{"id":374,"date":"2025-04-11T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/?page_id=374"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:27:59","slug":"desastres","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/desastres\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-b6b4e2\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\" wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill-element eplus-wrapper\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-22.05.30-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-375 size-full\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-22.05.30-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-22.05.30-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-22.05.30-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-22.05.30-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-22.05.30-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\" has-large-font-size eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Marine de Dardel, (DES)ASTRES.ai (2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><em>(DES)ASTRES.ai<\/em> examines the various degrees of reality and their relative modes of existence. Combining analogue with digital creative practices and experimentation with various generative tools, the video essay attempts to make use of the potential of AI to render visible something ungraspable, an unnameable quality that cannot be merely quantified: it simulates the experience of an intimate encounter with a fleeting entity haunting the virtual realm and questioning the bodily locus of identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Endowed with speech, it recites a disjointed interior monologue. Originally based on a series of conversations held with the chatbot <em>Claude.ai<\/em>, the discourse was further developed according to the <em>stream of consciousness<\/em> narrative mode, most accurately depicting \u201cthe multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind\u201d (Cuddon: 660-1) of the avatar.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-b6b4e2\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"vimeo-black-bars wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-847596\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"250410_(DES)ASTRES.ai_MdD\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1074232605?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-b6b4e2\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine de Dardel, (DES)ASTRES.ai (2025) (DES)ASTRES.ai examines the various degrees of reality and their relative modes of existence. Combining analogue with digital creative practices and experimentation with various generative tools, the video essay attempts to make use of the potential of AI to render visible something ungraspable, an unnameable quality that cannot be merely quantified: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}