Fabian Mosele: Democratizing Synthiola

Videostill from Fabian Mosele, Democratizing Synthiola, 2023-2024, 18:34 min., video, colour, sound. Courtesy of the artist

- selected by Inke Arns (HMKV) –

A synthetic love story in the era of generative AI: humanising generative models dehumanises humans. Democratizing Synthiola is a synthographic motion picture by Fabian Mosele, featuring the Shoggoth, an AI meme based on the similarities between the Lovecraftian creature and Large Language Models, and Synthiola, the creator’s synthetic AI persona. The film was created with a novel mix between 2D animation and generative visuals powered by Stable Diffusion, AnimateDiff and Gen-3 Alpha.

Voices: Nina Nikolic, Jiezl V.Chua and Reeko Brooks
Music: Lafayette Vanderkin-Jus, kazu*2 and Fabian Mosele
Camera: Hsun Hsiang Hsu
Additional animations: Elnaz M.Asl

Funded by Filmbüro Bremen and Nordmedia

More info: https://www.fabianmosele.com/democratizing-synthiola

Fabian Mosele is a synthographic storyteller who explores generative media through animation, parody and the remix of internet phenomena. Mostly famous as one of the people behind Italian Brainrot, they critique themes of identity and pop culture in an era of synthetic media production.