AI/VR: situated animation in the Library of Babel

If cinema represents the `most replete and consuming instance of an interface for dreaming' [1], what more can we expect of virtual technologies and Artificial Intelligence, or indeed, of computation in general, to create animated works that surpass our longstanding, heterogeneous, heritage of time-based visual media? The promise of VR and AI is arguably that of an ontological and ethical shift, one that takes us closer to a posthuman...