Mayumi Rollings: Is AI Film Still Art?

Mayumi Rollings presents the BC + AI Film Club as a place to test creative tools together and debate what AI changes about making art. She identifies herself as a Tiny Ghost Studios co-founder and says she and Kevin had run the club since January, after asking whether people could gather to experiment together, at 01:09.

Rollings says the monthly gathering was designed to replace isolated experimentation with shared ideas and experiences at 03:41. She describes the first prompt challenge, a 30-second toilet-paper commercial, and says each participant's result differed at 04:20. By 10:24, she reports that participants were collaborating on submissions, forming collectives and comparing where people were finding work.

Asked whether AI-assisted work is art, Rollings argues that vision, ideas, curiosity and communication can matter even when the physical production process changes at 18:59. She later clarifies that she is not trying to convert every artist: her recommendation is to understand what the tools do, their limitations and whether they fit one's own practice at 25:04. Those positions are hers, not a BC + AI definition of art.

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