Algorithm-Powered Movie whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir Computes at Sundance
Jan-30 2012 / 20:31 EST

Algorithm-Powered Movie whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir Computes at Sundance via @zite:

Eve Sussman’s experimental cinema project whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir uses a computer to build a movie out of 3,000 video clips, 80 voiceovers and 150 pieces of music. Though it makes choices in largely random fashion, the computer is surprisingly adept at editing together a pretty good movie. Sometimes.

whiteonwhite played three shows at the Sundance Film Festival (it has also been performed in New York and will soon travel to Berlin and Santa Fe, New Mexico). Of the three Sundan...