George Drivas
Directing
Biography
Born in Athens, Greece. He represented Greece at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Drivas has received numerous awards and distinctions, including a nomination for the Eye Art & Film Prize (Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 2020), a grant from the Greek Ministry of Culture for digital media (2020), and 2nd Prize at the VII Media Art Forum, Moscow International Film Festival (2006). His works are in the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens.
Known For
After generating a series of AI-produced images and videos, the artist initiates a dialogue with another AI model – uploading the visuals and prompting it to interpret their meaning. As a final step, the music is specially written by an AI model as the most appropriate to the topic of the work, according to its opinion.
Incidents of a Finite Future
Kaizo unfolds the story of two children as they wander through an empty town, in a bizarre game of exploration. They venture forth in an attempt to discover something, seeking to understand what exactly happened, or perhaps just to escape from it all. Kaizo is an endless tale of love in a desolate world, a narrative game with no true conclusion, and a journey through an ageless era. It resembles a video game or a post-apocalyptic tale, which unfolds in variations, chapters, or levels. It commences and concludes endlessly. The beginning is the end, and each ending marks a new beginning.