Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

The artist and computer scientist Terence Broad built an autoencoder, a type of artificial neural network, and showed it the classic science-fiction film Blade Runner (1982). He trained the autoencoder to remember every frame of the film and to reconstruct each one as a memory, the result of which is Blade Runner – Autoencoded. In the original film, a bounty hunter tracks down androids that are so well engineered that they are indistinguishable from humans. Here, we face a similar challenge as we try to identify the original film within the AI "brain"'s perception of it.

This screening takes place on January 8, 2017. Learn more.