Prita Hasjim | www.pritahasjim.com | www.instagram.com/pritahasj.im
i can be your dream girl - installation.mp4
Medium: Projection mapping (3 videos); AI image generation (Midjourney, Runway); Deepfake (Deep-Live-Cam); Papier-mâché sculpture
“I Can Be Your Dream Girl” is a personal short film exploring the intersections of identity, fantasy, and AI distortion. The work reflects on the microaggressions I have accumulated as an Asian woman, specifically experiences of fetishization, intertwined with collective stories from female friends and women online.
Using selfies collected over the past year, I trained an AI (Midjourney) to generate nine “dream girls” that resemble me. I then used deepfake software to superimpose their faces onto my body, creating uncanny variations of myself that blur the line between human and algorithmic perception.
Themes include microaggressions, face dysmorphia, beauty standards, and the eerie effect of the Uncanny Valley. The project critically engages with AI biases and hallucinations, particularly how machine learning systems are shaped by distorted training datasets. Many AI-generated images were flagged and blocked, not because my prompts were explicit, but because the dataset itself reflects a bias toward the sexualization of Asian women. As a result, my likeness was repeatedly rendered in oversexualized ways, exposing how AI both replicates and polices racialized, gendered stereotypes under the guise of “community standards.”
Through layering human experience with machine interpretation, “I Can Be Your Dream Girl” examines how identity is both constructed and destabilized by technology, fantasy, and social gaze.
