A multimedia interpretation of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — marking 30 years of a book that predicted the timeline we live in. Generative AI · TouchDesigner · DaVinci Resolve.
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I find AI an absolutely perfect medium to portray a scene from a book that itself is about addictions, including those to technology. The Entertainment was made with surreal optical tech, just like AI.
But using AI solely to make an interpretation of such a literary masterpiece was not enough — I wanted the exact precision and the deliberate infuriation with tools.
Back in the days I used Python for processing images for cervical cancer screening — the same analytical rigour, now using Python in TouchDesigner with Claude AI vibe coding for coordinate tracking.
pipeline.execute() — deliberate friction between dream and data
From fluid generative outputs to rigid mathematical tracking — mirroring the book's tension between chaos and control.
Uniform colors, event sequences, book-accurate details — including the Mean-Value Theorem defining ball trajectories. Yushityu brand monitors from the book.
Mixed media initial exploration, then pivoted toward paranoid precision matching the scene's computer-tracking aesthetic.
Dream-state visual language of the Enfield Tennis Academy — uniforms, dystopian details, Easter eggs for readers of the book.
Object coordinates concatenated with Combatant ID. Feedback loops updated to POPs. Mathematical tracking of nuclear warhead tennis balls.
Color space: nostalgic yet sterile. Audio manually stripped and reconstructed. Score: Gaudeamus Igitur — formal, haunting backbone.
story_log.read() —
2020 was a torturous year. While rewatching Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch, I became curious about which books Eve, Tilda Swinton's character, was packing for her trip. Most I had read and enjoyed — and then there was Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. That seemed like a fun reading challenge for lockdown time. It took me several weeks to go through that absolutely mind-bending body of work. Yet, this book has never completely left my mind.
In January 2026 I enrolled in an online course that became a bleak disappointment. The second week's task: make a creative video about sports. Of course, the Eschaton scene was the first thing that came to mind. The group supervisor said "I beg you, have mercy on me" — asking for something more realistic. A few days later I withdrew. I had freedom to finish the video on my own terms, without comments killing the main idea.
Realism is easy. Capturing the specific, frantic, drug-addled genius-level anxiety of David Foster Wallace's world is an entirely different task.
Many generated clips came with their own audio — most felt wrong, uncanny in ways that didn't serve the story. I manually stripped and deconstructed the audio, harvesting specific textures and layering them. The final edit is set to Gaudeamus Igitur — a nod to the academic rigidity of the Enfield Tennis Academy, sourced through the Instagram library to balance the tribute with digital rights.
The Eschaton scene — a geopolitical wargame played by tennis students that dissolves into chaos — feels haunting against 2026's backdrop. Life is so absurd that taking anything seriously is fundamentally ridiculous, even if it is also perhaps necessary to survive — just like making a good enough video via Gen AI. My soul is in the deep dive.
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February 4, 2026
Using AI solely to make an interpretation of such a literary masterpiece was not enough — I wanted the exact precision and the deliberate infuriation with tools. The paranoid precision of the scene: computer tracking of tennis balls representing nuclear warheads.
January 19, 2026
The vast majority of species leave their legacy by reproducing. Then we decided that mechanical utility is not enough — we want aesthetics, seeking a legacy beyond biology. AI is yet another tool, but with tectonic shift: how can we tell where the human idea ends?
January 11, 2026
We tend to blame social media for the decline of collective mental health. But what if we have the causation backward? Can repetitive digital consumption be a low-effort self-regulation strategy for those already experiencing anxiety?
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In a landscape of disposable content, this is a statement: stay in the infuriating details, the mathematical theorems, and the tactile memories of a physical book.
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| Visual Synthesis | Midjourney · Higgsfield AI · Artlist |
| Tracking Effects | TouchDesigner (Python, POPs) |
| Vibe Coding | Claude AI — Anthropic |
| TD Tutorials | @dcheesman |
| Video Editing | DaVinci Resolve |
| Sound Design | DaVinci Resolve + manual reconstruction |
| Color Grading | DaVinci Resolve Color |
| Concept & Visuals | Sinaida Krivchenko (@sin.ai.da) |
| @sin.ai.da | |
| Behance | behance.net/sinaida |
| Website | sinaida.eu |
| linkedin.com/in/sinaida |
This video is a non-commercial, transformative fan artwork created for purposes of tribute to the literary work 'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace. This production is independent of the author's estate or publishers.
Intellectual Property Notice: All rights to the underlying concepts, including Subsidized Time and the Organization of North American Nations (ONAN), are reserved to their rightful owners — David Foster Wallace Estate and Hachette Book Group (Little, Brown and Co.).
Visuals and E.T.A. design concepts by @sin.ai.da