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self-sustaining existence and a level of intelligence and consciousness that allows for the development of a creative process without any assistance from a human being. While Mallary conceives these ideas by focusing on sculpture, Youngblood applies the six levels of cybernetics to computer cinema, which he expects will generate “a new aesthetic discipline that bears little resemblance to previous notions of art and the creative process.” 3

More than forty years after the publication of Youngblood’s essay, the use of computers has revolutionized many aspects of cinema, allowing for more sophisticated visual effects but also transforming its distribution channels and introducing the ability to manipulate, edit and remix the contents of a film in multiple ways. While in most cinematic productions the computer has remained a “passive” tool (used in the different stages of editing and post-production, but without any …