Qingtian Liao. Creating the World with A Penis. 2024. Video (Procreate, Kling AI 1.0, GoEnhance AI, AE)
In daily life and work, women always face unequal treatment. Even with the same level of education, male candidates are often prioritized in hiring, even if female candidates have more work experience. Sometimes, interviewers may even reject a woman simply because she has a boyfriend, assuming she might choose to have children instead of focusing on her career. I reflected on the reasons behind this phenomenon and concluded that it is because women do not have a penis. People without a penis are often not recognized. Men create religion, money, power, and status with their penises, and they do so with great confidence.
I first used Procreate to create two collages, which I then input into AI to serve as the beginning and end of the video. I constructed the main subject, a "penis," using elements like "architecture," "forest," "money," "Buddha statue," and "woman," and had it spring out from the zipper of a "man's" pants.
The generation of AI is random, and multiple generations can be very costly. Due to budget constraints, I tried many different AIs, and the final result was generated using Kling AI 1.0.Finally, I used GoEnhance AI to achieve a mosaic style, making the entire image more abstract and reducing its sense of reality. To address the issue of low clarity in AI-exported videos, I re-imported the video into After Effects for some processing.
Even with a very detailed original document provided, the videos created by AI still require ongoing trial and error, as it cannot fully understand the creator's intentions. Currently, the AI tools are not as powerful as I had imagined, and I feel a bit disappointed. Within a limited creative budget, they did not meet my expectations very well.
I am from China, 21 years old, and currently studying Kunst und Multimedia at the University of Munich. Skilled in using tools such as SAI, CSP, After Effects (Ae), and Premiere Pro (Pr) for creating animations and comics, I am now exploring the field of AI for the first time. I hope to create works that can provoke thought.