Shira Speiser

Corpus (ft. AI)

[Image, Technology & Motion][2025]

A visual study of my body as an inner landscape holding tension, softness, decay, and growth. Through AI-generated imagery refined in Photoshop and animated in After Effects, I created hybrid forms blending flesh, textile, and organic matter. The project explores intimacy with little voyeurism, and frames the female body as a complex ecosystem shaped by personal and cultural forces.

Image, Technology & Motion

2025

Image and Technology Course, Visual Communication, Bezalel

Guided by
Nomi Geiger and Jasmin Rubinovitz

Process

A node-based AI workspace: a written prompt connected to a generated image of folded, flesh-like fabric
The same prompt producing another generated image

I imported an image of part of my body into Weavy, along with various prompts asking it to depict a body represented through nature and textile.

A generated image being worked on in Photoshop, with its layers panel open
Another generated image extended and edited in Photoshop

I moved the outputs I liked into Photoshop and cut out the parts I wanted to develop. I used Generative Expand on them to create more variations in the same visual language.

A loose collage of cut-out fragments of generated imagery
An initial collage of the different “body parts” I generated.
Zoomed-out view of the AI workspace: many generated images scattered across the canvas
Back in Weavy, I began searching for the form of my body’s ecosystem. I tried different models and prompts and drew on references from art history.
The AI workspace: prompts and images connected in a branching graph
I gradually narrowed the search toward a specific kind of world. I realized it should read as a landscape photograph, something like a battlefield or a piece of a big wild jungle.
An Ideogram V2 node combining a prompt, a negative prompt and a reference image into a wide landscape
I reached an output whose overall composition I was happy with.
The wide composition assembled in Photoshop from many masked layers
The wide composition in Photoshop at a later stage

In Photoshop, I worked on the fine details. It was important to me that every element in this ecosystem be deliberate and considered.

The composition being animated in After Effects, with its timeline of layers

Finally, I brought the image into After Effects and used subtle movements to breathe life into it.