​ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

​Important: To fully benefit from the workshop, attendance at the previous day's lecture is essential.

​ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

​Quantum Editing is a one-day hands-on workshop led by Geoffrey Lillemon, Amsterdam-based digital artist and creative technologist. Working directly with Hugging Face, the open repository where experimental AI models circulate before becoming polished commercial products, participants will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the mood, atmosphere, spatial logic, and emotional meaning of an image, using those transformations to construct a short interactive film.

​The workshop unfolds in two parts.

​In the morning, participants enter the unstable landscape of Hugging Face itself. Unlike commercial AI platforms that package models into controlled subscription interfaces, Hugging Face remains fragmented, experimental, and exposed, a place where unfinished cinematic tools can still be discovered, tested, and misused. Together we will explore a curated selection of models for relighting, camera transformation, motion induction, atmospheric manipulation, spatial reinterpretation, and image mutation, while encouraging participants to uncover their own pathways through the ecosystem.

​The central question is cinematic rather than technical: how does altering an image alter a story? A relit face is not simply corrected lighting, but a different emotional condition. A shifted camera angle changes power relations. A transformed environment changes the psychological reality of a scene. Editing no longer occurs only between shots, but within the ontology of the image itself.

​In the afternoon, these experiments become narrative structure. Each participant constructs a 9-click film: a short browser-based interactive work in which every click reveals a new scene. The software framework will be provided. Scenes may be still or moving, generated or found, but each must pass through at least one Hugging Face transformation process.

​Loosely inspired by the Kuleshov effect, the idea that cinematic meaning emerges through juxtaposition, the workshop ultimately asks a more contemporary question: what happens when cinema is built from images that continuously mutate between possible states?

​WHO IT IS FOR

​Filmmakers, moving image artists, and creative practitioners curious about experimental AI tools beyond polished commercial interfaces. No prior experience with Hugging Face required; basic comfort with film language is helpful.

​WHAT TO BRING

​Participants are required to bring their own laptop.

​We ask all workshop participants to join [Geoffrey's artist lecture] the evening before. This way we all have a shared understanding before starting and can make the most of our time together.

​PRACTICALITIES

​📍 Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
🗓 20th June 2026 > Rescheduling for September
⏰ Full day workshop (10:00 to 17:00, with lunch break)
💰 Free attendance
🎫 RSVP required
💺 Limited seats available, allocated by selection. RSVP here to sign up; selected participants will be notified by email 1 week before the workshop, remaining spots will be filled on a rolling basis.

​If you have any accessibility needs, please don't hesitate to reach out so we can discuss how to best accommodate them.

​ABOUT GEOFFREY

​Geoffrey Lillemon is an Amsterdam-based digital artist and a defining figure of the early internet avant-garde. Through his long-running platform Oculart, he helped pioneer a form of browser-based art that transformed the web into a space for cinematic, real-time, and interactive experiences. For over two decades, his work has explored the collision between classical romanticism, procedural systems, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.

​Working across CGI, game engines, AI image systems, robotics, and live computational environments, Lillemon constructs artworks that behave less like fixed media and more like autonomous digital ecosystems. Central to his practice is the idea of timing: polyrhythmic structures, generative mutation, and systems that continuously evolve in response to code, interaction, and machine logic.

​His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais Immersif, Nxt Museum, Next Nature Museum, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Paradiso, and the Van Gogh Museum. Alongside his artistic practice, Lillemon continues to research procedural image systems, real-time technologies, and new relationships between physical and computational space through robotics, sensors, and live generative environments.

​Learn more about Geoffrey and his work on his website, Oculart, or Instagram.

​ABOUT AI GREENHOUSE

​AI Greenhouse is a two-year collaboration between the Netherlands Film Academy and AIxDESIGN to research and cultivate (more) responsible approaches to AI in filmmaking and film education.

​Led by artist-researchers Nadia Piet and Pablo Núñez Palma, AI Greenhouse organizes public event programmes, runs artistic experiments, and compiles towards a Creative’s AI Literacy Cookbook — a set of experimental pedagogy practices to contribute to the ethical, sustainable and community-driven integration of AI in filmmaking.

​ABOUT NETHERLANDS FILM ACADEMY

​The Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) is part of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and the only film school in The Netherlands that trains emerging filmmakers in all subdisciplines: directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, sound, production design, visual effects, and interactive media. Based in Amsterdam, it offers hands-on, collaborative education with state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry partnerships.

​ABOUT AIxDESIGN

​AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is an independent organization conducting critical and creative research on AI. We challenge mainstream tech narratives by making space for the rest of us — centering intersectional, inclusive, and ethical approaches through community-led projects. Learn more at aixdesign.co.