Meiro Koizumi

Koizumi created his latest work, Soluble Meat, using an AI program called Luma Dream Machine, He fed the AI old black and white photos of hypnosis sessions and fave it the following prompt: "This is a tragic film about people who are losing their free will". The artist then repeatedly fed the composite image created by algorithms back into the program, with the same prompt. By repeating this process every five seconds, he created a film in which incomprehensible events are slowly taking place. The scenes are familiar yet like a confusing dream, they have no logic behind them. These strange video sequences were then entered into an AI programme called Google Gemini in order to create the vocie-over. Although Koizumi sees the film as an AI stream of consciousness, he emphasizes that there is always a human behind the input and decision-making. In this way, the film is reminiscent of automatic writing, a method the surrealists used to tap into their subconscious mind. - from exhibition text for "Theaters of Life" at De Pont Museum, 2025