XINZHI
CHEN

A practice-led Cinema 3.0 research project, specializes in integrating blockchain technology with deep learning models for creating a series of cinematic arts. The first round of archive and data collection has been completed. 

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Hotel Pennsylvania sits at the confluence of history, technology, and storytelling. In reality, this historical relic is located right next to the apartment where I live, and I watched it being demolished bit by bit. I draw from over 10,000 archival materials and oral histories to tell the story of a landmark hotel in Manhattan, tracing its (non)fiction story from grandeur to demolition. 

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By training multimodal deep-learning models to process this data and generate creative outputs, I challenge traditional notions of narrative temporality. I aim to synthesize artificial and authentic realities into a unified cinematic form, utilizing tools like blockchain to embed these narratives as digital artifacts in the virtual world.