Degazed Body, Disembodied Gaze

Degazed Body, Disembodied Gaze is a series of AI-generated diptychs that reveal the fragility of machine perception and the constructed nature of human identity. Using his self-developed network bending technique, Broad manipulates neural networks by selectively disabling the parts responsible for generating specific facial features. 

Each diptych shows two versions of the same portrait: one with the subject’s eyes—the site of human connection—removed, and another where only the disembodied gaze remains. By exposing how AI “hallucinates” what it cannot see, the work reflects on how machines interpret, replicate, and distort our image of ourselves. 

Engaging with contemporary debates around surveillance, bias in machine vision, and the politics of representation, questioning who controls the gaze in a world increasingly mediated by algorithms.

The series of 24 diptychs will be released and available to collect on the 4th November on objkt, as part of the exhibition The Bigger Your Pool organised and curated by The Second Guess as part of the Art on Tezos event in Berlin, 6-9th of November 2025.