Jesse James
Mark your calendars, The Andy Warhol Diaries arrive on Netflix on March 9th. The streaming giant invades our news feed today with a look at the first official trailer for the upcoming documentary. The Andy Warhol Diaries will be a six-part documentary that aims to chronicle “the remarkable life of Andy Warhol from the intimate vantage point offered by the artist’s own posthumously published diaries.”
The preview for the Ryan Murphy-produced series shows how the project utilizes AI technology to recreate Warhol’s voice as a narrator. The lines were originally recorded by actor Bill Irwin, which were then combined with a text-to-speech algorithm that incorporated Warhol’s Pittsburgh accent. The preview finds Warhol “saying,” “I’m just a freak,” adding, “I wasn’t very close to anyone. Although, I guess I wanted to be.”
The official description from Netflix reads: “Beginning with his childhood in Pittsburgh, the series traces Warhol’s almost unbelievably diverse journey fluidly moving between mediums and through eras as an artist – both revered and reviled – director, publisher, TV producer, scene maker, celebrity and much more. While he was a larger-than-life figure, Warhol was intensely private regarding his personal life. This series truly reveals much about the very complex man through his own words – often in his own voice through the use of cutting-edge AI techniques – and those who worked created and played alongside him from the subversive to the mainstream, from John Waters to Rob Lowe.”
Again, look for The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix on March 9th. Check out the trailer below and keep it locked with The Culture Curators for more art news and entertainment news coming very soon.
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