From "The Myth of Total Cinema" to the "World Picture" of AIGenerated Imagery: The Image Ontology of Film Industry Aesthetics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The aesthetic foundation of the ontology of traditional photographic imagery lies in the realization of the "Myth of Total Cinema," whereas AIgenerated imagery is constantly approaching the perfect picture of world model. The shift from the "Myth of Total Cinema" to the picture of a world model signifies fundamental aesthetic transformation in AI-generated imagery. In the "world picture" of AI-generated imagery, the physical world, the imaginary world, and the virtual world overlap and coexist. In the "deformed physical world, " realistic aesthetics fail, replaced by the 3D photorealistic aesthetics under "spatial intelligence" and the material spectacle of digital technology. In the "reshaped imaginary world, " the disintermediated creative process allows creators to constantly approach "subconscious imagery, " while simultaneously, the "non-anthropocentric" AI imagination presents a symbiotic picture of the "Chthulucene. " In the "emerging virtual world, " the combination of real-time generation technology and Extended Reality (XR) technology overflows the boundaries of form, moving towards a future of immersion and interaction.
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