Upscaling Swedish Biograph
(2024) In Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 14(3). p.181-197- Abstract
- Following a boom of user-friendly artificial intelligence tools in recent years, AI-enhanced (or manipulated) films have been framed as a serious threat to film archives. The purpose of this article is to trace and critically evaluate how AI artists use algorithmic upscaling to modify early cinema, more particularly surviving films of the film company Swedish Biograph, and how fragments of this company’s cinematic past circulate online today.
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Following a boom of user-friendly artificial intelligence tools in recent years,
AI-enhanced (or manipulated) films have been framed as a serious threat to
film archives. The purpose of this article is to trace and critically evaluate how
AI artists use algorithmic upscaling to modify early cinema, more particularly
surviving films of the film company Swedish Biograph, and how fragments of this
company’s cinematic past circulate online today.
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- author
- Stjernholm, Emil LU and Snickars, Pelle LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- artificial intelligence, machine learning, archives, film restoration, digitization, film history, remix, reuse
- in
- Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
- volume
- 14
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Intellect Ltd.
- ISSN
- 2042-7891
- DOI
- 10.1386/jsca_00118_1
- project
- Modern Times 1936
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 76b6d975-61cf-48f8-9f44-91d5b390c498
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- 2024-12-17 08:07:32
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publisher = {{Intellect Ltd.}},
series = {{Journal of Scandinavian Cinema}},
title = {{Upscaling Swedish Biograph}},
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doi = {{10.1386/jsca_00118_1}},
volume = {{14}},
year = {{2024}},
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