6 papers
World Simulator: Queer Erotica and the Absurdity of AI Video Models That Promise the World
Adam Cole, Mick Grierson
Increasingly, AI video models are marketed as "world simulators," suggesting their ability to model infinite realities. Despite such claims, these models systematically exclude sig…
Vertigo Vertigo: Reconstructing a Cinematic Ideal through its Predictive AI Double
Adam Cole, Mick Grierson
Vertigo Vertigo is a scene-for-scene AI reconstruction of Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), generated from only 2.78% of the original film's frames. Using this sparse set of keyframe anc…
Real-Time AttentionBender: Granular Interactive Network Bending of Video Diffusion Transformers
Adam Cole, Rebecca Fiebrink, Mick Grierson
Generative video models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet their prompt-only interface offers thin creative agency and obscures the model's material process from the art…
AttentionBender: Manipulating Cross-Attention in Video Diffusion Transformers as a Creative Probe
Adam Cole, Mick Grierson
We present AttentionBender, a tool that manipulates cross-attention in Video Diffusion Transformers to help artists probe the internal mechanics of black-box video generation. Whil…
Guiding Generative Storytelling with Knowledge Graphs
Zhijun Pan, Antonios Andronis, Eva Hayek +6
Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in story generation, but challenges remain in maintaining long-form coherence and effective, user-friendly control. Retrieva…
Attention of a Kiss: Exploring Attention Maps in Video Diffusion for XAIxArts
Adam Cole, Mick Grierson
This paper presents an artistic and technical investigation into the attention mechanisms of video diffusion transformers. Inspired by early video artists who manipulated analog vi…