Vibeke Bertelsen

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Soma

Soma explores a crucial question of our time: as we rely more on digital interfaces, what are we losing from direct physical experience? The film's ever-changing bodies, generated through working with AI as a creative partner, become both visual spectacle and urgent investigation into how technology is reshaping human connection.

The film is created through a partnership between human vision and AI creativity, where machine learning models become active collaborators rather than passive tools. The work embraces AI's unpredictable nature to generate bodies that go beyond what humans could imagine alone—hands that multiply endlessly, limbs that stretch impossibly, flesh that constantly transforms.

This collaboration with AI explores a crucial question of our time: as we rely more on digital interfaces, what are we losing from direct physical experience? The film's ever-changing bodies, generated through working with AI as a creative partner, become both visual spectacle and urgent investigation into how technology is reshaping human connection.

The central question, "What do you know about the world if you've never caressed anyone?" challenges both AI systems that process information without bodies and humans who increasingly experience the world through screens. By letting AI reimagine human forms in impossible ways, Soma creates a space where both human and machine limitations can be explored and exceeded.

Rather than simply criticizing or celebrating technology, the work uses AI's unpredictable outputs to imagine different relationships between bodies, tools, and knowledge. This human-AI collaboration asks whether we can build futures where technology amplifies rather than replaces the essential knowledge that comes from touching, making, and being physically present with others.