Endless Kiss merges classic media and AI technology to question how intimacy will be expressed in our digitized future. Here, an AI trained on iconic Hollywood kisses attempts to reproduce the classic image of love but can’t quite get it right. The resulting meditative film depicts an AI-generated couple caught in an endless embrace, rhythmically pulsating. But are we to trust this conventional representation of intimacy or be repulsed by its inhuman origins?

Furthermore, who is represented in this dataset? As a queer artist, I grew up consuming Hollywood depictions of heterosexual (and predominantly white) love. In this piece, I see a metaphor for my own experience. The system repeatedly attempts to reproduce the iconic image of a kiss, of love itself but forever fails. The ideal is a myth; the goal is unachievable. And yet, it persists.

Watching this kiss unfold, I wonder, how will Love exist in our tech-mediated world? And in what ways will the history of who has traditionally been represented as the “ideal expression of love” continue to haunt our unimagined future?