A DeAngelisReview Thought Probe
Who Made
What Moves You?
If a maker creatively conceives of a work and, with collaborators, technically directs and codes its production, then iterates, selects, and edits images with generative AI, how do you judge the result?
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Who Made What Moves You?
A DeAngelisReview Thought Probe
Who Made What Moves You?
If a maker creatively conceives of a work and, with collaborators, technically directs and codes its production, then iterates, selects, and edits images with generative AI, how do you judge the result?
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The question
Computer animation, then and nowStar Wars
In the 1977 film Star Wars, Larry Cuba's wireframe Death Star plans brought computer animation to the screen. Cuba's account
Star Trek II
In 1982, a Lucasfilm team led by Alvy Ray Smith made the Genesis sequence for Star Trek II, with Loren Carpenter's fractal mountains. Smith's account
We will consider two works made with the help of generative AI and ask whether it serves artistic expression as computer animation did then.
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Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter
Superradiance
A humanlike figure appears within pale, petal-like folds against a dark field, with other colored forms nearby. Official film Hofstadter choreographed and performed the dance in this work, which combines poetry with code, simulations and generative AI. Artist's project
How the work was made
Akten and Hofstadter call the work “woven together with code, simulations, and generative AI” (Artists' account).
Superradiance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter, with choreography and performance by Hofstadter and music by Akten for Chapter 1 and Rutger Zuydervelt for Chapter 2 (Artist credits).
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Open original YouTube uploadSofia Crespo
Structures of Being
Projected onto Gaudí's Casa Batlló in Barcelona, the work responds to the natural forms that inspired the building, with images shaped for the facade using a detailed three dimensional scan (Artist's project).
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That concern with living forms takes a different shape in Structures of Being, by Sofia Crespo. Artist's project Projected onto Gaudí's Casa Batlló in Barcelona, the work responds to the natural forms that inspired the building. Artist's project Its images are shaped for the facade using a detailed three dimensional scan. Artist's project
How the work was made
Crespo lists the medium as “generative and simulative systems, neural networks” (Artist's account).
Structures of Being by Sofia Crespo, with music by Robert M. Thomas performed by Juan de la Rubia and Cosmos Quartet, and technical direction by Feileacan Kirkbride / Entangled Others Studio (Artist credits).
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Art with new tools,
or something different?
What did you make of these works, and did knowing how they were made change your judgment? I regard these works as art. The earlier animation gives us a precedent, though it cannot settle what we make of them. What is your own view, and what in either work led you to it?
Which decisions in these works would you credit to their makers?
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Superradiance by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter, with choreography and performance by Hofstadter and music by Akten for Chapter 1 and Rutger Zuydervelt for Chapter 2. Full artist credits
Structures of Being by Sofia Crespo, with music by Robert M. Thomas performed by Juan de la Rubia and Cosmos Quartet, and technical direction by Feileacan Kirkbride / Entangled Others Studio. Full artist credits
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DeAngelisReview · October 21, 2026
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