Artificial Intelligence

Dear Authors! WELCOME TO VIC OCP 23! Enjoy VIC´s submissions, interacting with them, making comments to the ones in your session and also to all from VIC 8 sessions! Each session has a Chair that will get in touch with you! This Session will be chaired by MARIDA DI CROSTA, who will interact with all of you! Thank you for your participation! Denize Araujo – VIC Chair denizearaujo@hotmail.com

Dear authors,
I would also like to welcome you to IAMCR 2023! I am sure we will have a lively discussion, both here and face to face in Lyon!
I would also like to take the opportunity to invite you to VIC CineClub, which I am curating. This is a virtual space for interaction, where all members of IAMCR sections and working groups are invited to share their comments on selected pieces of high-quality world cinema. Currently, in homage to France as host country of IAMCR, we are discussing 5 outstanding French films from past and present: “Breathless” (1960), “Muriel” (1963), “Swimming Pool” (2003), “Rust and Bone” (2012) and “Titane” (2021). Do you want to give us your feedback on one of these films? Just send me an e-mail with your comments and become part of our experience!
We are looking forward to reading and hearing from you!
Thomas Wiedemann, vice-chair of VIC (thomas.wiedemann@ifkw.lmu.de)

Dear All, Welcome to VIC session 2!
I join Denize and Thomas in welcoming you to OCP23, and more particularly to this session 2 dedicated to the uses and practices of artificial intelligence and its impact on visual cultures.
Your contributions have made it as rich as it is varied, with a strong presence of our fellows authors from China - many thanks to all of you!
Discussion promises to be exciting, and I can't wait to read/hear from you.
Let VIC session 2 begin!
Cheers
Marida (marida.di-crosta@univ-lyon3.fr)
P.S.: Please kindly note that, being currently on secondment in Singapore, I might react with a delay, due to the time difference. Thank you very much for your understanding!

DEAR AUTHORS! I defy you to explain why your submission is part of this session! You have to analyze the title and verify if it is appropriate for your submission and how you can fit your submission inside the title! It is a challenge! Have a nice Sunday answering my question! Denize Araujo denizearaujo@hotmail.com

Significantly, half of the papers in our section focuses on digital individuals as performers - whether it's Virtual Idols (Feiyang
Chen, Sarenna Bao) or Virtual News Anchor (Menghan Wu and Xinyi Zhou) or even (in my case), Deepfaked reality show celebrities inpersonated by impressionists.
Do you think this is an entirely new phenomenon, or is it part of a history of the use of advanced technologies (such as AI) for visual effects that extend, rather than revolutionise, traditional forms of audiovisual or television shows?
(By th way: I didn't know a thing about Luo TIan Yi! Thank you for the opportunity to discover this Vocaloid and partially measure its impact on audience and pop culture!).
@Sarenna: your paper made me think of the movie S1MO/NE (A. Niccol, USA, 2002), whose central character is a virtual CG actress who ends up to perform a song in a stadium, in front of thousands of fans. The film is considered one of the first attempt at comedic satire.
Is there any manifestation - in social media or elsewhere - of a satirical attitude around this Virtual Idol phenomenon?

Dear Authors! tomorrow is the last day of phase 1! Some of you are very active interacting a lot! Congratulations! Some did not interact up to now, so I would like to see at least replies to comments about your papers! VIC needs interactions!

Dear Authors! tomorrow is the last day of phase 1! Some of you are very active interacting a lot! Congratulations! Some did not interact up to now, so I would like to see at least replies to comments about your papers! VIC needs interactions!

DEAR AUTHORS: today is the first day of Phase 2: here is a request for the ones who will not go to Lyon: try to answer the challenge I propose and the questions that the Chair, Marida Di Crosta, gently asked you! Thank you!