Looking for a venezuelan futurism

2025 (Ongoing)

This work explores the intersection of ritual, AI-generated memory, and cultural resistance. Using LoRAs and Runway, the video reinterprets Diablos de Yare and Giros de San Benito (Venezuelan folkloric traditions) through locally AI-trained imagery, generating shifting figures, masks, and movements that blur the line between tradition and machine perception. The AI misreads and reshapes customs, symbols, and gestures, highlighting the gap between embodied knowledge and computational processing. Rather than documenting folklore, the piece reconfigures it, treating AI as both a translator and a disruptor — envisioning a Caribbean Futurist vision rooted in cultural memory.