Image Strike is a speculative video essay that explores the environmental, aesthetic, and political implications of generative AI through the fictional gesture of a machine that refuses to generate new images. Composed of AI-generated archival material, the film proposes a more ecological way of working with generative models by reappropriating and remixing synthetic visuals that already exist. The film centers on Loab, a haunting digital figure that emerged from a viral AI glitch, and uses her as a speculative device to reflect on hyper-technologized human experience. Loab—a being who can only see in 2D, who is overwhelmed by images she never asked to see and just wants to experiment reality—becomes a metaphor for our current saturation with machine-made visual culture.

Presentations and screenings

Nordic Summer University – Circle 2: Cybioses – life in the future imperfect Creative Machines and Minds Without Life: Critical Detachment and Disengaged Futures – Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025)