In Defense of the Random Image is a network of works. In these works, the images Elki Boerdam confronts us with, are active agents themselves. Each narrating their own storyline: In the work 'When an image finds herself in an echo chamber' (video) we see an image floating in her own echo chamber where she questions her own existence. The literary work 'Spillway' (publication) researches the potential of fiction as a vehicle for meaningful change. And in particular how the genre of science fiction can be used in offering tools for resistance to processes of predictive control. Next to this various random images are intruding the space of the exhibition. As their own entities they occupy their own territory and confront the visitors with all that they are. The work 'Airdrop' (intervention) is commissioned by the Alliance and has been taken place prior and outside of the exhibition as well as during. In this assignment members of the Alliance are spreading random images to as many devices as possible.