Screening
AI Creation Finalist
Acheiropoieta
Cao Shu
China / 12'29'' / In Japanese with Simplified Chinese and English subtitles
Acheiropoieta traces the spectral connections between photography, radiation, and AI through the human shadows left on Nagasaki’s walls after the 1945 atomic bombing. Combining archival images with early AI glitches, the work explores technology as a medium of inscription, memory, and collective fear, where images become traces of absence and connect the living with the dead.
