Do Machines Dream of Human Bodies?

Do Machines Dream of Human Bodies? is a series that uses AI systems as a tool to explore something deeply human: the physical experience of having a body.

Through a structured process of AI interpretation and (mis)understanding, the collection transforms The Machine’s flawed perception of the body into a series of theatrical, exaggerated images that, in a strange way, end up creating unexpected meaning and uncovering hidden truths about human culture we often take for granted.

The results are emotional and strangely intimate: imperfect mirrors that reflect back the things we often take for granted, like our gestures, rituals, desires, fears, emotions, and physical limits.

This series isn’t about AI as a subject. It’s about what it reveals when it tries and fails to picture what it can’t understand. In its limitations, something human surfaces. Not because The Machine meant to show it, but because the failure itself becomes insight.

The heart of the project is not technological. It’s human. It’s a reflection on what it means to live inside a body, and what becomes clear when a system that has never lived in one tries to imagine what it’s like.

Because if machines can only simulate human experience through inaccuracy, exaggeration, and illusion, what does that say about what it means to be human?

Dalos Dov