THE CURATED LOG XII
By MITO Universe - @mito.universe
Welcome back to MITO Universe.
This week, it’s not about the noise around AI. It’s about how tools are quietly mutating the shape of creative labor.
AI editors that transform archives into vertical scrolls.
Agents that retrieve footage as if they knew what we meant.
Pipelines where metadata isn’t entered, but inferred.
Let’s stay close to the tools — not to be first, but to be precise.
SELECTED CREATORS
Gizem Akdağ / @bound.works
Gizem Akdağ is a Turkish-born brand designer, illustrator, and artistic pioneer who reshapes the boundaries between identity, emotion, and technology. Under the alias bound.works, she embraces her role as an AI Explorer and Creative Director, adding a new layer to the creative process.
Her work reveals a rare talent for conveying tactile emotion through geometric abstraction. In the images she shares, bold and minimal compositions—often centered on bodies, hands, or surreal objects—evoke a strange intimacy. There’s a soft tension in her style: a balance between the familiar and the uncanny, where abstract forms feel strangely human, like a whisper made visual.
Hana Katoba / @hana.katoba
Hana Katoba, born in Barcelona and trained in Art History at the University of Barcelona, invites us into visionary realms where fantasy and the ethereal intertwine through a singular, poetic visual language .
Her creative process unfolds like a dream: with roots in photography and hand-drawn sketching, she employs advanced AI algorithms as a creative collaborator, weaving symbolic floral forms with ethereal light and color . Flowers in her work act as a subtle language—a spectrum of emotions and memories unfolding through each petal and leaf, imbued with meaning and resonance .
There’s a particular kind of absurdity that only works when it’s whispered. In Hana Katoba’s world, the whisper takes the shape of long, sentient strands of hair escaping human anatomy… or of old women outsmarting lions. Her images hover between high-concept editorial and quiet visual jokes, unfolding in clean suburban spaces and pale, washed-out landscapes. Nothing is loud, but everything is strange.
WHAT’S NEW
Luca Guadagnino to Direct OpenAI Movie “Artificial”
Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) is set to direct Artificial, a rapid-turnaround biographical dramedy about OpenAI’s tumultuous 2023 leadership saga. Produced by Amazon MGM, the cast includes Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, Monica Barbaro as Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever, along with Ike Barinholtz, Jason Schwartzman, Billie Lourd, Chris O’Dowd, and Mark Rylance. Filming began in San Francisco in mid-2025, aiming for a high-speed production schedule.
Quickplay will unveil AI Studio to streamline content repurposing
At IBC 2025 (September 12–15 in Amsterdam), Quickplay is set to debut AI Studio, a production-ready platform poised to transform vast video archives into short-form, social-ready clips. Leveraging generative AI, AI Studio automatically identifies key moments, enriches metadata, formats vertical video, and supports API-based publishing to platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Meta—working within existing CMS/MAM systems to deliver tangible ROI.
Moments Lab introduces its Discovery Agent—AI-powered video search by conversation
At the same event, Moments Lab will roll out their Discovery Agent, a research assistant that understands natural language prompts to locate exact clips, quotes, or scenes across media libraries. Driven by MXT‑2, their advanced multimodal indexing engine, it offers features like timecoded “Custom Moments” and “Custom Insights” while powering workflows like Brut-Europe’s real-time production at the Cannes Film Festival.
KEY VISUAL
Henry Daubrez has spent years shaping the visual language of the internet.
As co-founder and design director of the award-winning Dogstudio, he’s crafted experiences for The New York Times, Microsoft, Hulu, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. His websites weren’t just interactive, they felt alive.
But in Ouroboros, Daubrez steps away from spectacle.
What he builds isn’t a product, but a pattern.
Created entirely with Google Flow, the piece begins with a single frame: a woman wakes in an apartment overtaken by ivy. She trims, sweeps, restores, only to wake again and find the overgrowth returned.
There’s no ending, no resolution, only care, collapse, and continuity. After decades designing for impact, Daubrez makes something quieter here: a story that doesn’t want to be told.
Only held.
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