Experimental Imaging
I deconstruct memory’s chaos and reassembly through entropy. In Ableton Live with random plug‑ins, sound artist Luka collapses classical timbres into melody‑less noise, forging an unrepeatable soundscape. Visually, fragments from Philosophy of a Knife pass through TouchDesigner, layering digital distortion in real time to shatter images into “memory shards” synced with audio fluctuations. Glitches become language: noise as synaptic static, randomized sequences as subliminal echoes. The piece asks: when algorithms override narrative, is runaway entropy memory’s truest form?
2019
Video 5′55″
Audio by Luka
This video contains:
- High-volume sounds, sudden noises, and extreme music
- Rapidly flashing images and intense visual effects
- Strobe sequences that may trigger seizures
- People with photosensitivity or a history of epilepsy
- Individuals with auditory sensitivities
- Those with anxiety or heart conditions
- Children and adolescents
- Watch in a well-lit environment
- Keep the volume at a comfortable level
- Stop viewing immediately if you feel unwell
- Maintain a safe viewing distance
In June 2019, a three-day field study in Hongcun shifted from a structured nine-dimension survey to an immersive reading of the village’s temporal and spatial logic. Loosening the rigid framework revealed interstitial codes—midnight barking dogs, fish leaping over ripples, faded spring couplets, villagers’ voices—that unlock its essence. Documenting the rural texture under urban modernity’s pressure, the work captures not just wooden architecture’s form but its life pulse beyond clock time. Through the interplay of planned inquiry and chance observation, it unveils the survival wisdom of contemporary Chinese vernacular society grounded in lived reality.
2019
Video 11′50″
Audio by Luka