Synne Tollerud Bull

Synne Tollerud Bull

Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Film and Media, Kristiania University College

MishMash role: Member , Work Package Leader · WP1 , WP2 , WP3 , WP4 , WP5 , WP6 , WP7

Synne Tollerud Bull is Professor of Media Art and Pro Dean of Research at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences. Working in the artist duo Bull.Miletic with Dragan Miletic, her practice-based research examines artistic intelligence, AI infrastructures, and media ecologies through moving image, installation, and the concepts of cinéma trouvé and proxistance. She co-leads WP2 in MishMash – Centre for AI and Creativity, serves as co-Director of the Kristiania AI Centre (KAI), and AI Ecologies.

Media-Art Art History Cultural and Creative Industries Media Theory Visual Culture New Media

MishMash Projects

Other projects

Latest results

Type

Book chapter

  1. Book chapter, 2026

    CTRL AI - Evaluating GenAI Tools Readiness and Affordances for Industry Standard Media Production Workflows

    Marie Dahlén ; Henning Birkeland ; Ivar Kjellmo ; Morten Moen ; Synne Tollerud Bull ; Sigbjørn Galåen

    The study presents key findings to evaluate and ensure the readiness of GenAI tools for use in the professional VFX, film and media industry. Building on previous insights, we present themes which will support rather than hinder artistic practices as well as considerations on ethical guidelines to ensure sustainable and fair use. The study suggest skills to develop in order to incorporate GenAI tools efficiently such as: adaptability of tools and workflow, knowledge in sufficient input quality, prompting, and to be able to apply human ideation and filtering as well as discipline specific competence to the GenAI tool assisted process throughout the whole production workflow. The study suggests that HAIC tools, while being highly cost- and time-effective, are less valuable to incorporate in post-production and final production as they lack sufficient control, high resolution output, nor an option for personalization.

Conference

  1. Conference poster, 2026

    Exploring Authentic Anonymity in Documentary Film through AI

    Mette Nyseter ; Andrew Michael Davidson ; Christian Schüssler

    This artistic research project explores whether AI-based audiovisual transformation can offer a viable and ethically responsible way to anonymise real people in documentary film, protecting participants’ identity while preserving perceived authenticity in their human presence on screen. Conventional anonymisation methods such as heavy blurring, pixelation and strong voice distortion often strip away facial expressions, body language, emotional intensity and relational dynamics that give the material its meaning, and can introduce stigma or associations with crime, danger or shame. The project investigates whether AI can protect identity without erasing the embodied expressions, emotional nuances and relational dynamics that make documentary material meaningful. Through a pilot study, we test selected AI tools and approaches, examine how well they retain expression, gesture, interaction, voice and environmental context, and identify key technical, ethical and legal challenges. The outcomes include proof-of-concept examples, a preliminary anonymisation workflow, and a framework for a larger multidisciplinary research project on ethical, cinematic and technological approaches to anonymisation in documentary practice. The project draws on extensive video recordings from an ongoing artistic research project on role-play and embodied methods in documentary practice and education at the TV School in Lillehammer, providing a concrete use case through which the possibilities and limitations of AI-mediated anonymisation can be explored. You can read more about this project here: https://www.inn.no/english/research/research-projects/Role-playing-for-documentarists/ RESEARCH TEAM Mette Nyseter – Project leader, University of Inland Norway, the TV School Andrew Michael Davidson – Research advisor, University of Inland Norway Christian Schüssler – Industry collaborator, Reimagine AS

Introduction

Book anthology

Popular science article

  3. Popular science article, 2025

    Studentene tar tak i Grønlands utfordringer med kreativ kraft

    Synne Tollerud Bull ; Leo Rygnestad

Other artistic output

Monograph

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