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Out of the loop
What will we do with the time and attention AI could free up?
Welcome to Monday.
The week is scheduled from start to finish. Tasks, appointments, conversations. A moment to breathe at the weekend. On Monday, it all starts again.
My video explores this feeling of repetition. A daily life in which so much happens, yet there is little room to think of something new.
The character carries something of me. So do the rooms. Personal memories meet an imagined scene. The video gives this feeling an artistic form.
Maybe AI can help us out of this loop.
I am interested in the possibilities that emerge when AI takes on recurring tasks. Could we gain more time to think? To experiment, learn and try things out? To pursue something whose outcome is still open?
These are the freedoms I value in my work. Developing ideas, making suggestions, discovering connections. This takes attention and sometimes time that has no predetermined purpose.
Automation could make room for this. But what happens if every hour saved is immediately filled with more tasks?
Who owns the time AI saves us?
From recurring tasks to agents that act
For me, Agentic AI raises the question of how AI can take on connected workflows. Which tools does an agent need? What knowledge must it be able to access? How do several agents work together? And how do we know whether the outcome matches what we intended?
For me, this work starts with the processes themselves. This is what agentic project management is about for me. Goals, responsibilities, information and exceptions need to be clear. Much of what people take for granted at work remains unspoken. This practical knowledge needs to become accessible as more tasks are automated.
I am also interested in how responsibility changes. Where do we need human judgement? What can run autonomously? And which new tasks emerge when people spend less time on execution?
Which questions remain?
- When does routine support us, and when does it hold us back?
- How do we prevent automation from simply speeding up the pace?
- How do we preserve and share knowledge as teams and professions change?
- What do we want to do ourselves, even if an AI could do it?
- And what might daily life look like if creativity and curiosity had a place in the middle of the week, too?
The video offers no ready-made answers. It makes a feeling visible that I want to explore further.
How I made the video
Character Sheet
The character is loosely based on a photo of me in my twenties. I first created a character sheet, a visual reference defining her appearance for use across the individual scenes.
Still images
I developed the still images using Google’s Nano Banana and OpenAI’s GPT Image 2. The apartment combines elements from my period flat in Berlin with my current kitchen in Hamburg.
Animation
I animated the images with Seedance by ByteDance. My starting point was a prompt by Aimi Kōda (@aimikoda on X), which I adapted for the character and visual setting.
What interests me about this process is how personal memories, generated images and movement become a short narrative. An imagined scene can express a very familiar feeling.