© 2025 AIxDesign
© 2025 AIxDesign
© 2025 AIxDesign
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Introduction
<STORY&CODE> is a collaborative research-by-making program and artist residency exploring AI in animation specifically, and filmmaking and storytelling at large.
Timeline
February 2023 - September 2023
Team
Program Lead
Nadia Piet
Sublab Coordinator
Morris Rohof
Learning Experience + Host
Eryk Salvaggio
Editors
Nadia Piet
Supporting Editors
Ploipailin Flynn
Dominika Čupcóva
Kwan Suppaiboonsuk
Graphic Designer
Katharina Mumme
Speakers
Erik Peters
Soyun Park
Fabian Mosele
Amritha Warrier
Storytellers
Connie He
Guido Dujin
Cody Gallo
Nick Cremers
Vilja Achte
Stein Louise
Creative Technologists
Maria Than
Cailean Finn
Chloé Michel
Leda Sadotti
Ioana Mischie
Diarmuid Farrell
Mentors
Marc Veerkamp
Marlyn Spaaij
Bobby de Groot
Rachel Brennan
Alex Dowding
Wip Vernooij
Partner
Sublab
Funding
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Introduction
<STORY&CODE> is a collaborative research-by-making program and artist residency exploring AI in animation specifically, and filmmaking and storytelling at large.
Timeline
February 2023 - September 2023
Team
Program Lead
Nadia Piet
Sublab Coordinator
Morris Rohof
Learning Experience + Host
Eryk Salvaggio
Editors
Nadia Piet
Supporting Editors
Ploipailin Flynn
Dominika Čupcóva
Kwan Suppaiboonsuk
Graphic Designer
Katharina Mumme
Speakers
Erik Peters
Soyun Park
Fabian Mosele
Amritha Warrier
Storytellers
Connie He
Guido Dujin
Cody Gallo
Nick Cremers
Vilja Achte
Stein Louise
Creative Technologists
Maria Than
Cailean Finn
Chloé Michel
Leda Sadotti
Ioana Mischie
Diarmuid Farrell
Mentors
Marc Veerkamp
Marlyn Spaaij
Bobby de Groot
Rachel Brennan
Alex Dowding
Wip Vernooij
Partner
Sublab
Funding
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Why it matters
In 2023, Generative Media was everywhere. OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and Midjourney offered images in any style a user could describe.
Stable Diffusion and open source models gave tinkerers more control, with community built tools that took storytelling in new directions. ChatGPT offered up an interactive partner for solving problems and storytelling. The initial gravity-defying stunt of automated image generation soon landed back on earth with a heavy thud. The tools were powerful enough that fears emerged over their use in replacing visual artists and storytellers.
Explore the Program
How we did it
AIxDESIGN partnered with Sublab, the R&D of Submarine Channel - a film and animation production house, to move past the buzz and explore AI's creative potential & challenges which resulted in launching a program with three main outputs:
AI x Animation Report: the research culminates in a report, and learnings we'll all bring into future work.
The Teasers: 12 artists-in-residence went through many rounds of experimentation, ultimately resulting in the production of 6 AI animation teasers created in collaboration with each other and AI tools.
The Public Event Program: we hosted 4 input sessions, with new media artist talks and hands-on tinkering workshops by Erik Peters, Soyun Park, Fabian Mosele, Amritha Warrier.
Dive into the Project Vault
What we made
We’ve culminated and poured the experiences, feels, experiments, tensions, questions & resolutions we encountered over the 6 months of the residency into a publication.
This is our way of synthesising and sharing the findings for others to build on, and to open up space for more critical, constructive, nuanced conversation around AI in relation to creative practice.
This playlist features all 6 teasers created by the pairs during the residency.
During the <STORY&CODE> residency, each duo created a 1 minute video with the use of AI.
You can also watch artist talks & workshop by invited artists & speakers Erik Peters, Soyun Park, Fabian Mosele and Amritha Warrier.
