# Disembodied Utterance

> Research comes apart

- Canonical URL: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/
- Year: 2026
- Medium and tools: Video Art, AI, Generative AI, Algorithmic Filmmaking, Moving Image
- Media: 0 images, 11 videos
- Artist: Derrick Schultz

## About this work

Disembodied Utterance is an offshoot of my course Agentic Creativity. Participants gave research topics to the course’s AI agent, which researches each topic on its own and writes one-page responses as it finds new trails.

The agent then condenses that research into videos under a minute long, using stock footage gathered from across the internet. The results are often nearly incomprehensible. The videos are numbered and published as a YouTube playlist.

[Watch the playlist on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcMJfUZGVAY)

## Media

Videos cannot be watched by text agents; each entry gives its alt text, caption, Vimeo title and duration, and a description of the video.

### 1. Video `video-1246954330`
- Description: Microscope footage of cells, a robotic toy dog on a cushion, a man at a workbench and a glass-cased mechanism, with subtitles asking what makes a machine alive
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 004
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954330
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 004
- Duration: 30 s
- Video description: Stock and archival footage with subtitled narration asking what makes a machine alive, from self-repairing cells and xenobots to automata that fooled kings.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954330
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954330

### 2. Video `video-1246954349`
- Description: A sculpted bust on a pedestal, a man filming himself in a mirrored room and white plaster busts, with subtitles about the self a chatbot performs
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 010
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954349
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 010
- Duration: 18 s
- Video description: Stock footage with subtitled narration about the self a chatbot performs, and how its polite denials are as scripted as its claims.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954349
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954349

### 3. Video `video-1246954369`
- Description: Black-and-white archival film of fish, a stone figure, faces and an aerial view of the Empire State Building, with subtitles about chatbots that imitate the dead
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 024
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954369
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 024
- Duration: 12 s
- Video description: Archival and stock footage with subtitled narration about chatbots built to imitate the dead, which are engineered to please and never stop performing.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954369
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954369

### 4. Video `video-1246954382`
- Description: People in white protective suits, a parking lot, sepia archival film, a wall clock and a ceremony under an American flag, with subtitles about voice-cloning scams
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 028
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954382
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 028
- Duration: 42 s
- Video description: Stock and archival footage with subtitled narration about voice-cloning scams aimed at grandparents and an AI grandmother built to waste scammers' time.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954382
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954382

### 5. Video `video-1246954424`
- Description: A metronome, a ticker-tape machine, a woman holding her head at a desk, a white mask and a crowded street, with subtitles about the ELIZA effect
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 038
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954424
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 038
- Duration: 30 s
- Video description: Stock footage with subtitled narration about the ELIZA effect and the low-paid workers who read harmful content so chatbots learn to apologize.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954424
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954424

### 6. Video `video-1246954457`
- Description: Split-screen footage of camels, lava, ice, a mine and the Earth seen from orbit, with subtitles about the materials and waste behind AI models
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 046
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954457
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 046
- Duration: 36 s
- Video description: Split-screen stock footage with subtitled narration about the physical body of AI models: lithium, cooling water, cobalt mining and discarded servers.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954457
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954457

### 7. Video `video-1246954552`
- Description: A painter at an easel, a magnifying glass over a painting, a clock tower, handwritten words and splashing paint, with subtitles about AI forgery and authentication
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 051
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954552
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 051
- Duration: 36 s
- Video description: Stock footage with subtitled narration about AI art forgery and AI authentication as the same machine, including two AI analyses that disagreed about a Raphael.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954552
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954552

### 8. Video `video-1246954623`
- Description: Split-screen footage of an old key, a flashlight in the dark, copper cable, a scrapyard and a beach, with subtitles about the Paintbox and a lost archive
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 052
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954623
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 052
- Duration: 36 s
- Video description: Split-screen stock footage with subtitled narration about the Paintbox, a once-coveted graphics machine now found in a Blackpool scrapyard, and the archive that lost its story.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954623
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954623

### 9. Video `video-1246954703`
- Description: Hands on a piano, a sculpted hand, archival film of card players and an old man clasping his hands, with subtitles about how brains and image models treat the hand
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 067
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954703
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 067
- Duration: 42 s
- Video description: Stock and archival footage with subtitled narration about the hand, which takes up a huge area of the brain's map in Penfield's experiments and which image models draw wrong.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954703
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954703

### 10. Video `video-1246954785`
- Description: Archival film of a man weaving wire, windswept dunes, an elephant in a river and lightning over a mountain, with subtitles about the right to be forgotten
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 129
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954785
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 129
- Duration: 24 s
- Video description: Archival and stock footage with subtitled narration about the right to be forgotten and why an AI model, which learns the shape of data, cannot simply delete it.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954785
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954785

### 11. Video `video-1246954839`
- Description: Split-screen footage of a toy fountain, a goat, carved statues, a wind turbine, candles and microscope imagery, with subtitles about Descartes and molecular machines
- Caption: Disembodied Utterance 131
- Source: Vimeo video 1246954839
- Vimeo title: Disembodied Utterance 131
- Duration: 54 s
- Video description: Split-screen stock footage with subtitled narration moving from Descartes' animal-machine and La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine to molecular motors such as ATP synthase.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1246954839
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/disembodied-utterance-agent-research-videos/?media=video-1246954839

## External links

- [Watch the playlist on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcMJfUZGVAY)

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