Black Pudding : Collaborative Speculation Workshop

Black Pudding: Collaborative Speculation Workshop is a hands-on, in-person workshop series designed to offer an accessible and collaborative entry point into the creative re-use of AI. As a point of departure, we use B̷l̷a̷c̷k̷ P̷u̷d̷d̷i̷n̷g̷ , a research-driven, AI-based project that revisits the lost pornographic animation film Black Pudding (1969) by Nancy Edell (1942-2005), a Canadian-American pioneer director in feminist animation. The Black Pudding: Collaborative Speculation Workshop Series now invites participants to collaborate on an AI-based short animation by contributing to a custom dataset of collages inspired by surviving textual materials (film reviews, critics, etc.) written about the film. The workshop series introduces participants to different forms of AI filmmaking tools in a low-pressure and ecologically mindful setting, and asks: what might AI look like if we slowed it down, made it smaller, and used it to make art together?