Ongoing Memories

By Yichen Wei

Video & Animation

This work is an experimental video driven by an AI image generation system. Using a LoRA-trained model, it generates images of prehistoric dinosaurs, constructing a visual world that appears to belong to the past but is, in fact, built from the present.

Two parallel image streams unfold: one features AI-generated dinosaurs, reflecting how contemporary visual culture imagines the "past"; the other presents fossil imagery—authentic remnants extending from prehistory into today. These two sets of images appear with equal transparency, interwoven to form a visual loop of time.Through the tension and blending of these layers, the piece invites viewers to reconsider: is our understanding of the "past" actively shaped by the cultural and cognitive frameworks of the present?