D.B. 🥀🪞 | THƏ L∆B ØF ∆NØM∆LIƏS_10

In the age of Instagram filters and TikTok trends, the perfect body reigns supreme. A symbol of health, wealth, success and power. AI are used to synthesize the body to the extreme in the obsessive quest for perfection, attention and admiration. But what if an AI, a very tool designed to create such perfection, could be turned against it?

Instead of generating synthetic bodies that conform to unrealistic and expected beauty standards, this AI is being used to represent the imperfect, the diseased, the suffering body. These images, a past and present taboo, are now being shared and openly on social media aiming at disturbing audiences and challenging their preconceived notions of beauty and acceptable body.

This is not a descent into a digital dystopia. It is an act of rebellion against the tyranny of the perfect body and judgemental gaze of society. It is a redemption of the creeps, the weirds, the atypicals. By exposing the flaws and imperfections of the human form, AI is challenged to embrace diversity and reject the narrow confines of manufactured beauty standards.
It is time to reclaim the body as a multifaceted, vulnerable, fragile, mutating, altered entity, not merely a vessel for aesthetic pleasure, career, a battleground for social acceptance. AIs can be exploited as powerful tools for this revolution, helping us to see beyond the biased surface and appreciate the complex nature of our imperfect body. 

DIS/couraged. DIS/stressed. DIS/turbed. DIS/ordinary. DIS/verse.

The disembodiment of every proportion. The negation of every perfection. The uncanny side of beauty.

AI human figure: Starry.ai
AI animation: RunwayML
AI sound: Melobytes + Mubert
AI text + Human edits: Google Gemini + Dom Barra
Human concept: Dom Barra
Human editing: Dom Barra
Human postproduction: Dom Barra

Human After All.