THE CURATED LOG XV
By MITO Universe - @mito.universe
Welcome back to MITO Universe.
This week, the audiovisual industry felt less like a sprint and more like a shift.
AI video tools are no longer just impressive — they’re becoming usable. From Meta testing remixable video feeds to Kling and Wan improving generation speed and coherence, we’re entering a new phase: less experimentation, more integration.
But as the tools mature, so do the questions.
How do we build workflows that are both scalable and personal?
How do we keep creative control when the format itself is in flux?
Thanks for being here — and for staying curious.
SELECTED CREATORS
Yolkluck / @yolkluck
Based in Amsterdam, Yolkluck is an AI creator and art director who builds haunted digital mythologies from fragments of folklore, glitch, and memory. Their work doesn’t just reinterpret Japanese traditions—it distorts them through a contemporary lens of neural networks and poetic dissonance.
Drawing from yōkai and oni lore, their figures emerge as spectral archetypes—neither human nor spirit, neither past nor present. Rendered in flickers of distortion and dream logic, each piece feels like a recovered dream from a collective unconscious, eerily precise and deeply emotional.
Their visual language is cinematic, fractured, and full of unearthed meaning—where creatures stare back at you, asking more than they answer. They are moments of possession. Portals.
SERIFA / Nastassja Abel & Christian Otto
Under the creative helm of Nastassja Abel and Christian Otto, SERIFA functions as both studio and laboratory — an atelier where art and design merge through generative tools and poetic intent.
Since 2021, they’ve made their mantra public: Defining New Aesthetics. Not as a slogan, but as a question — how to push visual language into unknown terrain without erasing the human fingerprint.
They’ve published over a thousand works under their “Art Every Day” project, treating each image as a pulse in a larger visual conversation — an archive that grows in iteration, not perfection.
SERIFA’s visual grammar is built on intentional ambiguity. They return again and again to themes like anonymity, encryption, noise, and fracture, weaving the glitch into their compositions so the viewer must choose where the line is drawn.
Beyond their standalone artwork, they’ve shaped their reputation working in publishing and design. They’ve created over 75 bestsellers’ covers for SPIEGEL authors like Yuval Noah Harari, Michael Crichton, and more.
What SERIFA shows us is not how to master the tool, but how to remain in dialogue with it. That the noise you don’t remove can become your voice.
WHAT’S NEW
Meta launches Vibes
Meta has introduced Vibes, a dedicated feed for AI-generated video. Each clip displays the original prompt and can be remixed by other users, with the option to share directly to Reels or Stories. For filmmakers it’s a glimpse of how prompts are becoming creative metadata and how platforms are starting to normalize remix-first formats.
Kling 2.5 Turbo
The new Kling release pushes video generation further with stronger temporal consistency, more realistic motion and lower cost per second. It positions itself as a tool for short spots and concept films where quality, speed and budget need to align — a practical option for rapid prototyping in production pipelines.
Wan 2.5
Wan 2.5 arrives as an open video model capable of generating up to ten seconds of footage with synchronized audio and improved motion coherence. Early demos show promise for mood films and quick narrative sketches, offering an alternative to closed platforms for teams who value flexibility and local control.
KEY VISUAL
French artist and digital fashion explorer Saint Louvent continues to expand her visual language — blending couture sensibility with sculptural surrealism and a fascination for fluid, transformative materials.
Her signature lies in creating figures that float between worlds: bodies that dissolve into fabric, silhouettes that shimmer like liquid, and textures that evoke both the natural and the surreal. Whether crafting latex-like gloss or stone-like stillness, her images feel like fashion dreams remembered from another dimension.
In her latest personal project, inspired by the BOSS SS26 show, she reframes tailoring as a fluid phenomenon: chrome reflections flood the floor, a tie melts into metal, and the classic suit becomes a portal into a world of optical illusion and digital elegance
That’s all for now — we’ll be back in your inbox next week.