Light Matter Film Festival 2022

Liquid Traits of an Image Apparatus

Vera Sebert

<p>On the screen&rsquo;s digital surface abstract machine codes appear as sensual images, readable by humans. Visualised machine instructions make up their own semantics and are base for human instructions. On a cinema screen these images are detached from their initial meaning.They condense on the picture base and swash into our eyes. Like a random rhizome structure an associative montage of minimalistic user interfaces follows the film&rsquo;s timeline. Our own body perception and our interpretation formed by media conditions become protagonists in a film without narrative.</p>

Moire / Écume (2022)

Maxime Hot

<p>Moire refers to the fabric obtained by the mechanical process invented by the Lyon manufacturer Tignat in 1843. This process consists of partially crushing the fabric by calendering by folding the fabric back on itself.</p>

How to microwave a cauliflower (in three easy steps)

Patrick Tarrant

<p>You first need to film the cauliflower three times, with a red, green and blue filter in turn. After 30 seconds make sure to pull focus on two of these takes, but not the third (choose your colours to taste). Shooting should be done through a spinning aperture for no more than 90 seconds. Combine in a computer.</p>

Black Palms (2022)

Justin Clifford Rhody

<p>A moving image that moves through a still photograph. Created by photocopying details of an enlarged 35mm photograph directly onto clear 35mm film leader.</p>

Color Noises (2020)

Mati Pirsztuk

<p>The glitches are flowing continuously into the digital landscape, without ceasing; like an eternal sea of colour waves into our eyes, while the sound surrounds the images by covering them into the chasm of noise.</p>

Capitalist Roaders (2016)

Lewis Klahr

<p>Capitalist Roaders has music by 2 icons of L.A. experimental music: David Rosenboom-- an excerpt from his epic composition In The Beginning (1978-81) and Tom Recchion with 2 tracks off of is 2006 Sweetly Doing Nothing-- Oozings and Ho Ho Ho 66. Capitalist Roaders is the second film completed of my feature length series: Circumstantial Pleasures (2012-19)</p>

LUMINFEROUS AETHER

Stephanie Castonguay

<p>LUMINIFEROUS AETHER is an audiovisual composition which explores the transformation of visible frequencies into audible signals through the phenomenon of transduction. The sound piece is mainly composed of light pulses transmitted from a cathode ray monitor of which the characteristics of sound matter are transformed by modulating parameters of the screen. The visual was generated by means of a modified scanner allowing the continuous capture of reflective objects, as well as the use of video feedback loop effects and light diffraction effects from an 8mm projector.</p>

Tenjinsan Textiles

Michael Lyons Haruka Mitani

<p>This is a stop motion animation of antique kimono textiles from the Nishijin district in Kyoto. It was filmed on super 8 in Kyoto by Michael Lyons and Haruka Mitani. The soundtrack was created by Michael Lyons and Palle Dahlstedt using the Octopus analogue audio-visual interface. The synthesizer follows visual input from the film, so that the textile motifs may act as a visual score for the sounds. The film is the outcome of our desire to listen to the kimono patterns.</p> <p>'Making of' video: https://vimeo.com/650481171</p>

Thread (2022)

Abigail Smith

<p>Threaded film</p>

Ruined Arbor (Mohsen Namjoo)

Kasra Yazdani Golrokh Hemmati

<p>Music is based on an old Iranian poem about a carpet weaver girl weaving a carpet under a ruined roof. Images have been photographed from different carpets of Iranian ethnicities.</p>

M*U*S*H (2022)

Jodie Mack

<p>Vital grief finds interplanetary putrescence.</p>

Of Wood

Owen Klatte

<p>Inspired by my love of trees and wood, and wanting to experiment with a new way of animating, &quot;Of Wood&quot;&nbsp; is a unique experimental stop motion film created by progressively carving images into a large round of wood, enhanced with wooden objects emerging from the wood. It examines the role of wood in daily life through the ages and comments on the impact of excessive consumerism on our lives.</p>

ROTOЯ / Sonic Body

NO1

<p>ROTOЯ / Sonic Body is the multimedia work by artist collective NO1 (Peter Kutin, Patrik Lechner, Mathias Lenz). At the center of the video is the eponymous sculpture&mdash;the rotor, a sonic body as loudspeaker arrangement that revolves around its own axis at different, changing speeds. Resounding from the loudspeakers is a minimalist composition, whose sounds are modulated by the speed of the rotation.</p>

Natural Selection (1984)

Larry Gottheim

<p>Radiating from the Darwinian text-fragments outward through the material is much pictorial and spoken signifying text having to do with issues such as communication, translation, dynamics of perception, art, science, isolation and social interaction etc. In a certain sense a meaning does arise from all of this. At the same time the endless groupings and regroupings of material suggest yet another realm of meaning. Finally it is the experience of our own selection of a pattern among the myriad richness of combining materials, superimposed on my own composed pattern, that opens up the real film. LG</p>

Knot/Not (2019)

Larry Gottheim

<p>Material from a documentary about conductor Wilhelm F&uuml;rtwangler, material from a graffiti stencil work on a brick wall near where I live, a stencil of a girl writing something on the wall, what she wrote crossed out by another act of graffiti. These are the main elements. Also footage looking down at the water of Pearl Harbor with the ruins of battleship Arizona beneath. It had turned red with age. And some footage from Manchester the morning after the terrorists struck. All composed against a sound piece, a multiplication table repeated in four languages. Everything superimposed. It&#39;s not just about what it&#39;s about, but also memory, negatives that try to get negated. About music and painting. Politics, longing and regret. Superimposition is the primary device. The doubling and tripling suggest many implications.</p>

Entanglement (2022)

Larry Gottheim

<p>An exhilarating cinematic train ride at the speed of sound through a quantum landscape. Music. The dance of death.</p>

Harmonica (1971)

Larry Gottheim

<p>&quot;This concludes the series of continuous shot films, but now with sound. The sound is produced by the car and the people inside it. The car window is both a screen and a plane that separates the inner world from the outside. Shelley, the performer, generates the primary sound when he breaks through that plane. The film is popular because of the vibrant energy of the performer, the music, and the autumn landscape, but it is also complex. As with the previous films, I myself am passive. The driver and the car and Shelley are the creative forces. He is the first of many avatars, doubles of me, that appear in many of my films and that became one thread of my later attraction to ceremonial possession.&quot; - Larry Gottheim</p>

Four Shadows (Elective Affinities, Part III)

Larry Gottheim

<p>Like constellations wheeling round, a double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel past each other in 16 combinations - a family of Gibbon apes, a landscape measured, a shadowed diagram after Cezanne, a wintry urban scene, a text by Wordsworth, a climactic scene from Debussy&#39;s opera Pelleas et Melisande .... The stately ceremony can generate rich sensuous cinematic pleasure as well as a free-flowing stream of associations. Containment and flowing free - these are some of the issues. The third film in the Elective Affinities cycle.</p>

The Day Lives Briefly Unscented

Brandon Wilson

<p>A rumination on ancestry, transformation and loss. Elemental forces and the universal web of interconnection. Dedicated to the memory of the filmmaker&#39;s grandmother Marilyn.</p>

Incantation (2022)

Kalpana Subramanian

<p>&quot;A serendipitous encounter on distant shores Colliding archives of body and place Ominous scenes of a homeland&#39;s militaristic pride An incantation to freedom and belonging.&quot;</p>

Calm Remains (2022)

Chap Edmonson

<p>Calm Remains is an experimental film designed to be viewed on a loop that seeks to evoke the emotion of the black experience in America. With the use of diptychs and sound design, the film explores a duality of consciousness.</p>

Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look

Carlos Velandia

<p>Faces, bodies and actions are juxtaposed endlessly. Fragmented pieces of the woman come together and form the volume of what has been her image in the history of cinema; one marked by the routinary domination and exploitation of her body. A short film homage to Laura Mulvey and her contributions to feminist film theory.</p>

Archivos Lumínicos y Otras Sensibilidades

Nuria González Pimentel

<p>Reverberations of fear and desire stemming from the drive to mirror the gaze and assert oneself as an image. My trans body beholds the possibility of collapsing into an inarticulable flux of home movies. This self-portrait summons familiar ghosts dwelling the wound of an image.</p>

Time Crystals

Abinadi Meza

<p>Experimental short film&nbsp;in which a synthetic&nbsp;narrator describes patterns in time, which &ldquo;she&rdquo; calls time crystals.&nbsp;It is not clear if this film comes from an unknown future, is a consciousness loop, or a dream. Over time her narrative&nbsp;shifts and branches as if other&nbsp;films are emerging from the fragmented spaces in between, from our own mental images, memories, and cinematic consciousness.&nbsp;</p>

Eidetic Imagination (2022)

Sounak Das

<p>If imagination is a trans-like state for the feeling of existing, wider than words and larger than pictures, is reality an illusion? The short doc-fiction explores the feeling of being lost in time. The memoirs of affection and trauma dwelling to get out from a prison. The prison is comprised of the loss of my father at an early age, my disconnected family, and the longing for my partner. Considering self, memory and time as three different entities, the conversation of these three analogues becomes my truth.</p>

Against Time (2022)

Ben Russell

<p>A structuralist diary, in blue and red.</p>

Un-Tidal (2022)

Masha Vaslova

<p>An experimental film essay about a found (stolen?) photograph, a hurricane, and film&rsquo;s inherent ability to animate and re-animate still, dead, and inanimate beings, images, and objects. The film is created using an ink-jet direct-on-film technique where the digital frame is printed directly onto onto recycled 16mm celluloid.</p>

Potemkin Piece (2022)

Justin Clifford Rhody

<p>A collaborative deconstruction/destruction of a Battleship Potemkin 35mm trailer created through the mail during lockdown with nearly 100 participants. Each person was sent half-second long strips of the film to manipulate as they saw fit. Once returned, they were spliced together in a new sequence creating a chance-driven score from the optical soundtrack. A messy and exciting experiment in montage and cut up techniques made by a diverse cast including found footage maestro Craig Baldwin and my high school girlfriend.</p>

A Random Walk Through the Latent Space

David Witzling

<p>Two artificial intelligences compete to mingle fact with its statistical representation. Thinking machines will eat your future. In the end, all is well in the Disneyverse.</p>

object permanence (2022)

Alix Blevins

<p>Objects disappear.</p>

The Perfect Room (2022)

Leonardo Pirondi

<p>The rendering of an impeccably constructed computer-generated image displays a disarranged home. Filmed on 16mm and hand-processed, the image is formed through a process that allows imperfections such as hair, dust, and dirt.</p>

Community Room (2018)

Amanda Katz

<p>On my daily commute, I&#39;m drawn to this underutilized space, tacked-on to a newly constructed condominium. Filmed on the first day of Spring. 210 North 12th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.</p>

The Black Tower (2019)

Mandy Eugeniou

<p>The Black Tower is an experimental film using crowd-sourced, aftermath photography of Grenfell Tower, in the wake of the catastrophe that befell Londoners in 2017. As a homage to John Smith&rsquo;s 1987 masterpiece of the same name, we enter the world of a notional character who is preoccupied with a black tower that seems to follow them around eventually driving them to oblivion. Crucial that all aftermath images for the film were crowdsourced from the general public who had documented the aftermath, here we consider how a networked connectivity can link individual consciousness to cultural memory. This re-enactment creates an aesthetic space to join the conversation between event &amp; representation, myth &amp; reality and the role of viewer-witness in our digital culture. Given how voyeurism underlies an engagement with spectacles of violence, the film explores how &ldquo;Art After Grenfell&rdquo; is even possible by putting the traumatic image under scrutiny to perform a critique of seeing. We watched the Tower transform overnight from presence to absence - and then again ad nauseam through the prism of mainstream media. On that day, event and representation experienced a temporal collapse. An architectural and visual anomaly, the &lsquo;monument&rsquo; became a politically and historically resonant site of trauma. As the real appears and disappears through the power of images, its monumentality hides in plain sight. The project explores (counter) memory and attempts to inspire an ethical presence with the wider complexities of this unconscionable trauma.</p>

A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse

Crystal Z Campbell

<p>Running like water, an eclipse streams glimpses of irreversible consequence.</p>

Timekeepers of the Anthropocene: Tolchikaualistli

Federico Cuatlacuatl

<p>Tolchikaualistli: to exist simultaneously in two places and dimensions of time is an immigrant&rsquo;s ability to embody a transobder life, navigating the past, present, and future at once. To (be)long is to reclaim territory, in this case it is a transcendence of time and space as a means to reclaim a new dimension of territory or place that must exist in between two worlds, between the past and the future, between two identities, between ones many selves. Smuggling traditions are acts of resiliency, self-preservation, resistance, and self-rematriation in a dimension of transborder indigeneity and one&rsquo;s many selves: to be an alien; to be the other; to be the threat; to be the dream; to be the backbone; to be the invasion; to be a cultural nomad; to be (in)visible; to be 500 years of historical weight; to be a &lsquo;pinche indio&rsquo; ; to be hope...</p>

Ejemplo #35

Lucía Malandro Daniel Saucedo

<p>This unusual documentary pixilation is based on images discovered in Cuban court archives. In the past, the Communist regime&rsquo;s prying security forces surveilled not only the enemies of the regime, but also the activities of nonconformists, misfits and dissidents.</p>

a.o.k. (2022)

Christopher Tym

<p>a.o.k is a hybrid video documentary about the experience of making pop videos and pop music. Using only behind the scenes and B-roll footage altered with animations, it is a painting of the emotional experience behind and in front of the camera. It is as much about the content as it is about the making of it.</p>

Puncture (2022)

Carleen Maur

<p>While the limits of language break visually and sonically over a burning forest, Puncture seeks to bend the boundaries of text through repetition until the original meaning is unseen.</p>

The Endless Journey (2021)

Priscyla Bettim Renato Coelho

<p>Atlantic Ocean, Year 1500. During the voyage of the ships commanded by Pedro &Aacute;lvares Cabral, strange events cause the crew to get lost in space and time without ever reaching Brazil. The Endless Journey is a reassemblage of the classic &quot;O descobrimento do Brasil&quot; (1937), directed by Humberto Mauro.</p>

Pet World (2022)

Sofia Theodore-Pierce Grace Mitchell

<p>A parking lot by the airport where people sit in their cars, eat takeout, and watch the planes land. A parking lot outside a mega pet store. A parking lot with a mailbox and a laundromat. A parking lot on the beach. Inspired by Amy Hempel&rsquo;s short story collection, Reasons to Live, and the work of poet Bernadette Mayer. An ensemble cast riffs on what we might discover about intimacy in parking lots.</p>

Black Hole Space Debt, or A Basic Guide to Syncing Sound and Image

Stephen Wardell

<p>This is a 16mm film about making a handmade optical soundtrack and syncing it to the image track. It is also a playful experimental narrative about space exploration. As the film progresses, the nature of the soundtrack comes to speak for the way space exploration is part of a larger, systemic repetition of colonialism.</p>

Camera Test (2022)

Siegfried Fruhauf

<p>The green leader of the 16mm film is still running, yet the rattling sound is already committed to forward movement. And indeed, it moves forward, but also back again, past hills, fir trees, and apple trees&mdash;and at some point, the gaze zooms into the seemingly passing landscape; but will also be forward again.</p>

Chyme (2022)

Brandon Wilson

<p>A convulsing stream of psychic indigestion.</p>

Cactus Raptus

Maxime Hot

<p>Raptus (delight in Latin) is a strong disturbance of consciousness provoking a sudden impulse urging the subject to act violently in a reflex way.</p>

The following images never happened

Noé Grenier

<p>A strange incident occurred on May 22, 1996 at the Can-View Drive-in in southern Canada. The disaster movie Twister was scheduled to be shown as the weather conditions became threatening. Shortly after, a real twister destroyed the screens. The showing was canceled, but some spectators have built up the memory of having attended the movie, in the middle of a storm.</p>

vs (2022)

Lydia Nsiah

<p>vs (or &quot;virtual spiral&quot;) deals with the dynamics between time and body in film. On digital video and non-reliable 16mm-film the processual of time and (film) body is visually transformed by spiraling camera movements. Here, contrary movements, distance and proximity or depth and surface enter into a dialogue with each other. The spiral runs like a thread through the film &quot;vs&quot;. For creating the spiraling effect the artist Lydia Nsiah invented a camera tracking machine and shot in-studio, operating the movements of the camera live while recording. On screen we see Found Footage of data centers/ recordings of the physical bodies of our omnipresent data cloud. Artist Hui Ye composed the film&rsquo;s immersive sound space interacting with the hypnotic and spiraling data body images.</p>

A Vessel, The Ideas Pass Through

Linnea Nugent

<p>Secrets of experiencing and the wandering of mind from an initial landing place through haptic view of the lens.</p>

GRID (2021)

Alexandre Alagôa

<p>A post apocalyptic state, still full of angst and sorrow. We follow the frustrated hammer of the future, long after Brecht thought that he had nailed it. Searching always searching, feeling deep yearning from the bowls of what used to be biology. Does he get it in the end?</p>

Breath (2022)

Lilian Robl

<p>A YouTube video, which is supposed to help the viewer against panic attacks and anxiety by focusing on his or her own breathing rhythm, served as the source material, which was graphically altered, filled with words and this way interpreted as a fleeting diagram of breath.</p>

Exhibition (2022)

Mary Helena Clark

<p>Pivoting between two stories of women and their relationships with objects&mdash;a Swedish woman&rsquo;s marriage to the Berlin Wall, and a suffragette&rsquo;s hatcheting of Vel&aacute;squez&rsquo;s The Toilet of Venus&mdash;Mary Helena Clark&rsquo;s Exhibition is a maze-like tour through images and artifacts, a dense cryptography of the forms and objects that hold us in.​</p>

Origami (2022)

Maxime Corbeil-Perron

<p>Origami plays with perspectives and dimensions. Fractals and luminous geometry are here liquefied by the cathode ray tube of a hacked television set.</p>

a landscape to be invented

Josh Weissbach

<p>Other than the ocean, the rest of the planet was bathed in purple, which was due to the color of the vegetation. The change in the sun&#39;s radiation had probably caused the plants to evolve as they adapted to the new light.</p>

Gilgamesh (2022)

Lucrecia L. Henrique

<p>In a near future, the artificial satellite Gilgamesh search the remains of man-made imagery in search of remembering something that has been forgotten.</p>

Notes from the Periphery

Tulapop Saenjaroen

<p>Mainly shot in the peripheral areas of the ever-expanding Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri, Thailand, Notes from the Periphery interrogates the notion of territoriality, globalized networks, and ownership through fragmented relations of the affected sites and communities nearby, shipping containers that become a policing tool, and the life cycle of a barnacle.</p>

Fragments untitled #6

DOPLGENGR

<p>Fragments untitled #6 vivisects media footage of the event. The film is part of Fragments untitled ongoing serial of works through which Doplgenger researches the politics of media images that participated in creating the historical narratives of Yugoslavia in the period of 1980-2000., especially media images that performed the pretext to the Yugoslav Wars and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Fragments untitled is based on the private archives of citizens who recorded the TV schemes in the 90s. At the same time these are the images that refer to contemporaneity.</p>

Devil's Peak (2022)

Simon Liu

<p>Devil&rsquo;s Peak reflects on recent unprecedented shifts in the socio-cultural fabric of the artist&rsquo;s homeland of Hong Kong and a nagging anxiety that hangs over daily life in the former British Colony. Highly condensed glimpses of cityscapes and everyday life form a collage of overlapping poetic narratives and coded references. The film cycles through ominous sites of social tension, lush urban spectacle, relics of imperialist legacies, and places of personal significance&mdash;such as the artist&rsquo;s 500-year-old ancestral village&mdash;at a rapid, frenetic pace. By interrogating highly subjective experiences in the context of a seemingly insurmountable change in the political and cultural fabric of his native city, Liu creates a site of remembrance for a time and place that may never be as it was.</p>

The Plains

David Easteal

<p>The repetitive nature of a middle-aged man&rsquo;s daily commute home proves to be quietly revelatory.</p> <p>In suburban Melbourne, Andrew, a charming middle-aged legal worker, leaves the office and drives home punctually at 5pm daily. During the long rush-hour commute, he dutifully calls to check in on his mother who has dementia, and after that shares a casual chat with his wife. At times, a colleague hitches a ride back, and the two develop a friendship through conversations about family, work, anxieties, love and mortality.</p> <p>Unfolding over the course of a year, this naturalistic docudrama with improvised dialogue takes place almost entirely in a car, with us tucked voyeuristically in the backseat. As we watch the light and seasons change outside, a deeply human portrait of a man gradually reveals itself.</p>

Arc (Wax and Wane)

Karen Donnellan

<p>Unedited footage of clear molten glass bubbling concentrically in reference to cosmic and terrestrial cycles of expansion and contraction. The two channels feature the same video, with one in reverse.</p>

Baiser (Kiss) (2020)

Mark Reynolds

<p>Love is a squishy, slightly sticky thing.</p>

Cathode Ray Gunpoint

Jen Kutler

<p>Cathode Ray Gun Point is an audio-visual performance piece in which Kutler relates stories by the light of a single match while wearing a lie detection circuit. The data from the lie detection circuit manipulates the audio and visual environment. Stories exploring links between personal fears, values, truths and conspiracy are told and accompanied by audio generated from the lie detector&#39;s signals which return to the air via speakers to manipulate the match&#39;s flame in a feedback loop. Video of Kutler&#39;s confession is manipulated by a &quot;wobbulator&quot; based on Nam Jun Paik&#39;s original Raster Manipulation Unit but with individual channels for red, green and blue. Handmade from a vintage cathode ray tube projector and hand wound coils, the &quot;wobbulator&quot; is controlled by the lie detector&#39;s signals. At the same time, notions of memory, honesty and the evolution of belief manipulate the moving image.</p>

Confessions on a Transmission Line

Monica Duncan Senem Pirler

<p>In Confessions on a Transmission Line, we wanted to explore the audiovisual process of feedback as a spiritual practice in relation to Camp and queer potentiality. Using real-time signal processing tools and improvisational strategies, we set up a performance space where our persona interacts with a discarded megaphone. By re-using this object as a tool and instrument to both project and receive transmission frequencies, we are searching for a way to communicate with our queer ancestors and those yet to be born.</p>

corps minéral (2021)

Charline Dally Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin

<p>Inspired by geology, science fiction, and documentary archives, corps min&eacute;ral integrates a narrative co-written by Gabrielle HB and Charline Dally (le d&eacute;sert mauve). The film connects the spaces of our lives and of our sensible experiences with geological phenomena of immeasurable temporality. The layers of memory, whether they are contained in the rock or in our cells, are part of a cycle from sedimentation to disintegration. The work invites us to apprehend these processes with attention and empathy in order to consider their slowness as a means to heal even the deepest fractures.</p>

CURRENCY (2019)

Crystal Z Campbell

<p>Currency as concrete representation of economy; currency as embodiment of presence and acceptance. In Crystal Z Campbell&rsquo;s mesmerising short, a woman rejects the camera&rsquo;s gaze and, with bygone forms of currency attached to the ends of her hair, supports herself against a bare backdrop and expresses through passionate movement. An engrossing articulation of capital&rsquo;s connection to memory and the body, this experimental film bravely uses movement and sound to say so much &ndash; without a word spoken.</p>

Deep Sophia

Yvette Granata

<p>Deep Sophia is an interactive video installation that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, &#39;deep fakes&#39;, and emotion capture. Utilizing facial recognition technology, the Sophia Robot is mapped onto the faces of women from historical films as an experimental film essay- rather than a traditional &lsquo;close-up,&rsquo; Deep Sophia amplifies the way that machine learning produces a deeply strange form of human-robot expression. The actor is better at facial expression than the robot, while the robot effortlessly wraps itself like a garment around the actor. The human becomes the machinery for the robot&rsquo;s artificial emotion, just as a snake takes on the shape of its prey as it swallows it, morphing as it digests.</p>

eth_OS

Victor Galles

<p>Feel in your eyes, cathode rays, blood streams and RAM memory, an exciting world of knowledge and possibilities offered by the eth_OS system. What you idealize is within the reach of the machine, even (self) destruction.</p>

How to Clean Your Closet

Wrik Mead

<p>Bucking the trend, How to Clean Your Closet celebrates the sexy dirtiness of the queer closet. Glitched clips from adult films combined with instructions about closet cleanliness brings delightful irony and sensual pleasure to this hidden space.</p>

Obscene and Uncontained (2022)

KT Duffy

<p>Duffy conjures entities into existence via code-based processes and digital fabrication. As a Neurodivergent-NonBinary person, the normative modalities of learning and making were not designed for them. To move through these structures, they made their own systems, glitching and patching and breaking the entanglements of binary logic; manifesting into infinite possibility, translating the immeasurable interconnection of transcendent sentience, and examining the impending demise of binary systems.</p>

privacy-GrDN.info

S4RA

<p>By placing automation within this simulated i̶d̶l̶e̶ garden it arises the complexity of what being human is in this electronic age. Learning, leisure and work share the same interchangeable framework in this post-truth dynamic where operations are engineered in an ambiguous way to praise &amp; glorify the strenuous path of c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶m̶p̶o̶r̶a̶r̶y̶ labour system.</p>

PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS (2022)

VLM

<p>PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS is a serene, lens-based, dance film created between the artist, a Luna moth, and a pile of dust. The film investigates atomic consciousness through a panpsychic lens. Inspired by ancient mythology, contemporary dance, and post-humanist theory, the film&#39;s sources include classical &quot;Myth of Psyche&quot;, Yvonne Rainer&#39;s 1966 &quot;Hand Movie&quot;, and Dr. Donna Harraway&#39;s 1988 &quot;Situated Knowledges.&quot; In PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS, all three material protagonists are filmed sculpturally in a decentralized and multi-perspectival gaze that is complete macro with close-ups, diverse camera angles, and rhythmic jump-cuts. Encapsulating these choreographies is a multi-layered elemental soundscape of low humming thunderstorms, playful water droplets, and tinkling temple bells. Collectively, VLM&#39;s lush atmospheric sounds and uncanny visual motifs create the dreamscape of PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS&mdash;a soothing and surreal space where consciousness flows intuitively between bodies of gesture, texture, and sound. PSYCHIC SYMBIOSIS was filmed, edited, performed-by, and sound-scored by the artist VLM.</p>

Quotidiano (2020)

Rosita Piritore

<p>Quotidiano tries to give centrality to a background that usually acts as a contour. The sonority, in this sense, is so soft as to allow the listener to annex his own everyday life or thinking. In the composition process, there was almost a reversal: it&#39;s as if I had started from the performance (moreover, from my ideal performance) taking care of what I want to emerge from the sound, and on this basis, then the further idea, to elaborate a graphic score. So a sort of stenographic track was born, this is interpretable by every combination of 3 instruments and fixed media (which everyone can make their way: ambiental and clocks recordings, inserting them according to timeline).</p>

Raquel Times Ten

Chris O'Neill

<p>Raquel Times Ten features 53 seconds of silent footage with actor Raquel Nave (Welcome To New York, Bizarre) which has been duplicated from one VHS recording to another, and that copied to another VHS cassette, and that to another VHS cassette... in total, this sequence is presented ten times and with each duplication the image and the soundtrack quality deteriorate until Raquel&#39;s facial features are a wave of analogue distortion.</p>

Reaction Diffusion scan processor

JesterN (Alberto Novello)

<p>Made using the electron beam of a Tektronix 620 analog monitor (green parts) deflected by the sound you hear. The scope picture is superimposed by the same shape colored by laser light. The sound you hear is the signal used to generate the light structure.</p>

Refuse 1 (tape)

Alex Broadwell

<p>Moments of VHS and 3/4&quot; tape decay and glitch, collected during archival digitization process, normally discarded for library access copies, but here woven into a noisy and chromatic tarrying with the negative.</p>

A Girl Who Open the Door to Herself

Parnian Donyari

<p>We humans are complex creatures and at some point we may lose ourselves or not accept different parts of our existence and we may not even know how to do this anymore, but in the end, the more we look for ourselves, We can accept all parts of our existence as it is.</p>

The Primitives (2021)

Genadzi Buto

<p>The complex life of simple figures.</p>

TR333

April Lin 林森

<p>In collaboration with ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, artist-filmmaker April Lin 林森 presents &lsquo;TR333&rsquo;, a speculative documentary which imagines a new species of tree based on scientific literature on plants and climate hardiness. Their hybrid forms and body parts a patchwork amalgamation of different tree types, this tree is a climate adaptative response, a lifeform born out of resilience and hope. As the spirit inhabiting the tree emerges to converse with the viewer, they share with us their experiences of ecocidal generational trauma, urging us to reflect around the ways all the beings on the planet are deeply interlinked, and to honour our collective responsibility towards one another. Using a blend of 3D animation, found footage, and a musical score based on data sonification, &lsquo;TR333&rsquo; uses the speculative to recast the ecological crisis, asking &lsquo;Why is this important?&rsquo; from a multispecies and affective gaze.</p>

Train Song (2022)

Yanbin Zhao

<p>Surrounding a hidden monument honoring Chinese immigrant workers next to a railroad track located in Canyon Country, California, Train Song adopts reflective material to distort the image of the railroad, as an approach to conjure the unseen spirits from the seemingly tranquil landscape, calling for remembrance of Chinese American labors through a meditative audio-visual experience.</p>

Trans-Scripted Memory: A Transhumanist Techno-Pop Opera

Christine Drake-Thomas Alvin Leung

<p>Trans-Scripted Memory: A Transhumanist Techno-Pop Opera is a three-channel video installation. Trans-Scripted Memory utilizes open-source Artificial Intelligence programs to generate the lyrical backbone of the work. The piece is in two acts that travel through time from the watery primordial beginnings of cyborgs to a period of modernist Romanticism to a speculative cyborg Ian future. This is musically explored by fusion between idioms of classical operatic and techno-pop music, as well as an interplay between AI-generated and human voices. The symbiotic relationship between AI and human creatives suggest transhumanism&rsquo;s advocation for humanity to conjoin with technology to reach the next phase of human cognition and evolution.</p>

Venus Rising (2020)

Colleen Keough

<p>A chant to the moon ritualizing the crumbling effigies of patriarchy, opens the first scene of Venus Rising. A woman is seen summoning new life as she dances in a cloud of microbes. What is hidden becomes visible as her rhythmic and undulating body conjures natural forces. Electromagnetic phenomena cuts through the atmosphere as she performs her ritual. A planetary cosmic and spiritual awakening is taking place. What lies ahead is unknown. The path has been set in motion and now must be followed through.</p>