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School: RCA
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Year: 2025
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Source: https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/655404/cover

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# Project Description

Pseudosynthesis

Leon Lin

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Final work

College London College of Fashion

Course BA (Hons) Fashion Photography

Graduation year 2025

Drawing on Judith Butler’s theories, it contrasts human performativity (fluid, culturally embedded) with AI’s programmed rigidity. The work also explores queering digital avatars, critiques the commodification of bodies, and uses a 3D fashion film to visualize the human-machine divide.

Final work

Pseudosynthesis

Pseudosynthesis is a 3D fashion film exploring the boundary between human and AI-generated performance. Through abstract visuals, it contrasts organic movement (raw emotion, imperfection) with synthetic replication (precision, artifice).

The film culminates in a split-screen composition—human dancers left, AI avatars right—posing a question: Can technology ever truly embody feeling, or does it merely simulate what it cannot experience?

Pseudosynthesis composition

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Research and process

Motion comparison for research

A comparison video of some of the motion captured footage with different levels of emotional expression followed by an AI generated motion sequence at the end.

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This project investigates whether AI-generated performers can authentically replicate human emotional expression in dance and performance. Through interviews with dancers and motion-capture experiments, it identifies three stages of human emotion (raw, mechanical, controlled) and...

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## Official page
- https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/655404/cover

## External
- https://www.instagram.com/llin1258
- mailto:leon0908@outlook.com
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