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The Upscaling of the Early Cinema Image through Artificial Intelligence. A New Aesthetics between Continuity and Dissent in Image Theory

Authors

Navarrete-Cardero, Luis , RAMÍREZ MORENO, CARLOS

External publication

No

Means

Arte Individuo Soc.

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

Publication date

21/01/2024

ISI

001159912800001

Abstract

1An active community of users is manipulating the image of early cinema using Machine Learningbased software. This practice, encompassed in the field of Artificial Intelligence, has transformed the materiality of these images, generating a mutated image as a result. Through a qualitative research design, based on a hermeneutic approach, this research aims to delimit the nature of this new image by observing it from the theoretical parameters that have shaped the specificity of the original filmic image. Starting from three historical concerns of film image theory, we have studied the interferences that this mutated image produces in the field of aesthetics, in its signifying relationship with reality and in its own ontology. Surprisingly, the new mutation presents a meagre break with the theoretical tradition of the cinematic image, oscillating between a slight dissidence and a marked continuity of its postulates.

Keywords

slight continuity postulates. early cinema image; image aesthetics; image ontology; artificial intelligence; machine learning

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