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| Awe by Romina Rahnamoun 1:17 min., 2024 |
Awe is generated through AI-driven sentiment analysis, fused with visual interpretations inspired by the poetry of Omar Khayyam, the renowned Persian philosopher, mathematician, and poet. His work reflects on the transient nature of life, the search for meaning, and the beauty of existence. This piece explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, Khayyam’s poetic expression, and my own personal interpretation as a visual artist.
The text Iranian viewers see is:
_"I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head."_
_"When friends you meet, in laughter and delight,
Remember me in talk both day and night;
And when the wine-cup sparkles in your hand,
Then, when my turn arrives—upturn it bright!"_
Soundtrack: Cello Quartet Hunter Underwater based in Berlin -
Guilherme Rodrigues, Gábor Hartyáni, Uygur Vural, Hui-Chun Lin
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| The Ethereal Woman by Romina Rahnamoun 3:30 min., 2025 |
This short video piece reimagines Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl, with its entire plot re-narrated through a large language model, influenced by machine hallucinations. While engineers often seek to minimize these hallucinations for optimization, I see them as an underestimated creative force—an emergent form of perception that resonates with the novel’s fractured, surreal narrative.
Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl is a haunting, dreamlike novel exploring themes of madness, isolation, and the fragility of reality. The story follows an unnamed narrator trapped in a cycle of despair, obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears briefly in his life before dying. As he recounts his experiences, the narrative fractures—visions of an eerie old man, a shadowy doppelgänger, and grotesque figures blur the boundaries between past and present, dream and reality. The second half shifts into a nightmarish recollection, where the narrator, now a husband trapped in a suffocating marriage, spirals further into paranoia, violence, and existential dread.
In response to this hallucinatory structure, I have constructed an AI-driven doppelgänger of the narrator—an entity suspended between delirium and machine cognition. Using multimodal diffusion models, the imagery in this piece is shaped by machine hallucinations and Hedayat’s evocative descriptions, generating a space where AI perception and literary madness intertwine. By embracing generative instability, this work explores the intersection of literature, artificial consciousness, and creative agency, reinterpreting The Blind Owl’s descent into
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Tehran, Iran
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