THE CURATED LOG XI
By MITO Universe - @mito.universe
Welcome back to MITO Universe.
If you only looked at headlines, you’d think this week was about lawsuits and banana memes.
But beneath the noise, creators are carving out something slower: a visual grammar where every shadow, every horizon, feels deliberate.
This isn’t spectacle. It’s practice.
SELECTED CREATORS
YZA Voku / @yzavoku
Madrid-based director and visual artist YZA Voku operates at the threshold between cinema and synthetic image. With a background in photography and experimental film, he uses AI not as decoration but as dramaturgy — shaping tension, silence, and atmosphere through generative loops.
His work often reads like a frame held too long: black-and-white studies of bodies, surreal architectural tableaux, fragments of stories never told. In shorts like Sutura and festival-featured loops such as LAPSE (awarded at AIFF and Gen:48), Voku crafts a meticulous chromatic language. The result is visual poetry that feels closer to Tarkovsky than to TikTok — controlled, haunting, and impossible to dismiss.
Veronika Pell / @__mindeye___
Based in Helsinki, Veronika Pell — known as Mindeye — builds a visual practice where the subconscious meets the synthetic. With roots in design and photography, her work explores how AI can generate images that feel less like products and more like memories.
Pell avoids the slick polish often associated with generative art. Instead, she leans into ambiguity: blurred edges, atmospheric distortion, and layered textures that echo the instability of recollection. The result is imagery that feels simultaneously fragile and uncanny — visuals that don’t just show but resonate.
Her presence in European AI art circuits has positioned her as part of a generation using machine vision not to imitate perfection, but to reframe how we see imperfection, intimacy, and the in-between.
WHAT’S NEW
Netflix codifies Gen-AI rules—because trust matters
Netflix has published its official generative-AI policy—the first of its kind. It emphasizes transparency, talent consent, and IP respect. Want to use AI-generated content involving people, data, or creative elements? You now need to ask—and get written approval. Finally, boundaries that feel useful, not bureaucratic.
Google Vids now free with AI avatars for workplace video
Google’s Vids—a tool for AI-generated video presentations—is now available to everyone. Onboard with a pre-made avatar reading your script, trim out filler words, or whip up an 8‑second promo clip from a still image.
KEY VISUAL
Polish visual artist and filmmaker Bezmiar uses AI to choreograph space itself. His moving images unfold like architectural meditations: grids fold, planes dissolve, geometries stretch into silence. Each video feels less like an effect and more like a performance, where absence is as important as form.
In his latest piece, structures ripple as if breathing — a reminder that generative video is not just about motion, but about atmosphere. Bezmiar’s films invite us into the void and ask us to stay.
That’s all for now — we’ll be back in your inbox next week.