FLUXIENT (20250518)
2025
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Is an audiovisual reflection on cyclical time, visual sedimentation, and the layering of memory fragments – inspired by Julio Cortázar’s poetic miniature “Instructions on How to Wind a Watch.” Three concentric image zones move independently within the circle: the inner and outer rings consist of AI-generated morphing sequences (Artbreeder) that crystallize, dissolve, and accumulate like organic or mental processes. Between them lies a ring of experimental Betamax and Video8 footage from the 1980s – digitized without further alteration, flickering and vibrating like background noise from another era.
Again and again, eyes emerge within the digital iris – gazes that rise briefly from the visual textures before disappearing back into the layered strata. The image becomes a retina, a field of perception where impressions settle, dissolve, and reappear.
The circular format is more than a visual device – it is a carrier of meaning. It recalls classical tondo formats from antiquity and the Renaissance as well as modern modes of scientific visualization: pie charts, radar scans, systems of orientation. The circle defines boundaries, concentrates attention, creates an inside and an outside. It embodies recurrence, rotation, containment – and evokes a specific tension between control and drift.
The soundtrack, composed using KAIVO (physical modeling), forms a quiet counterpoint to the nervous pulse of the central zone. It carries something organic, something breathing – a deep, internal rhythm that flows through the work and holds it together.