Makineler Film Yapmayı Düşler mi?: Jan Bot Örneği
Do Machines Dream of Making Movies?: The Case of Jan Bot

Summary/Abstract: The production practice called “New Media Art” creates a structure that enables computer users and programs to produce artistic content in a virtual environment. Because of the computable and algorithmic nature of “New Media Art”, artificial intelligence studies are more penetrating into the cultural field. Artificial intelligence applications make their impact in the movie industry, especially in the fields of film production, distribution and exhibition. In the stage of producing audiovisual narratives, the relation between art-craft and artist-artwork within the context of philosophy of art is discussed again. In this study; the works of the artificial intelligence application Jan Bot, which produces short films from the images in the EYE Film Museum archive, will be examined. Purpose of the study is to interpret the stylistic preferences of Jan Bot as an artist with hermeneutical approach and to question the identity of the artist in the light of art epistemology. The ten most viewed movies in Jan Bot’s Instagram account were subjected to style analysis. Style analysis aims to treat a film with a holistic approach with its narrative structure as well as its average shot length, cinematography, mise en scene, editing and sound. As a result of the analysis, it has been determined that the films produced by Jan Bot have stylistic features and create an “alternative” mainstream film perspective using popular hashtags. In terms of narration, it can be said that these films are artist-oriented in reminding of avant-garde cinema and offer a reflected interpretation of reality by breaking through a prism.

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