Oana Clitan


Pixels of Lost Time and Space

visual research, 2021-2022
An AI generated video of a street using archive photos from Rotterdam between 1900-1947. Done with playform.io



'Pixels of lost time and space' is a visual research involving creative re-use of archival materials in projects with science fiction or alternative-reality scenarios, focusing on experimental video and animation.

Through different techniques I try to create scifi visuals starting from archival photos of Rotterdam.


Supported by Stimuleringsfonds Experiment grant.

Digital manipulation of archive images


With different Photoshop toold I try to manipulate archive images and videos in order to get futuristic visuals.
Done with Photoshop -> 3D -> Mesh from Depth Map action
Experiment of overlapping two archive videos, exporting the frames and applying 
a series of Photoshop effects.
Done with Photoshop -> Torn edges filter -> 3D -> Mesh from Depth Map action 
and various color overlays
Done with Photoshop -> Halftone Pattern filter -> 3D -> Mesh from Depth Map action 
-> color overlays
Done with Photoshop -> -> Halftone Pattern filter -> Brush action -> 3D -> Mesh from 
Depth Map action


AI-generated images and videos


For this part of the research I fed collections of images from the City archive of Rotterdam (sometimes combined with my own images or screenshots of Google Maps) to an AI image generator. The results were still images and animations/videos.

Done with playform.io Freeform function (64+64 source images, x hours trained, 6400 resulting images)
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Done with playform.io Freeform function 
(33 source images, x hours trained, 5200 resulting images)
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Done with playform.io Freeform function 
(39 source images, x hours trained, 3200 resulting images)
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Done with playform.io Freeform function 
(50 source images, x hours trained, 11520 resulting images)
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Done with playform.io Freeform function 
(50 source images, x hours trained, 11520 resulting images)
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An AI generated video of a street using archive photos from Rotterdam combined with my own photos and screenshots from Google Maps. Done with playform.io
    
Example of some AI-generated city visuals using archive photos of Rotterdam. 
Done with playform.io



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