Entry 1
Project Entry 1, dieAngewandte Performance Lab
After a hiatus from dancing, I started developing a performance piece for my documentary Itumeleng. For every session, I filmed myself processing topics brought up while speaking to my mother about our shared and separate lives. Conceptualizing the performance piece I focused on how to show the audience my inner world. Editing the material I understood that the piece was for me to embody my inner world. Entry 1 is a video diary journaling this.
aquatic pattern
Untitled, 2020
In recent years, I, like much of the online world, have been introduced to the world of AI. My journey into this field deepened with my exploration of basic concepts in the philosophy of consciousness, deep learning, and mathematical functions. This exploration, particularly fueled by Douglas R. Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid," ignited my interest in patterns. Hofstadter's work led me to appreciate patterns and loops, as seen in my simple animation, "Aquatic Pattern," designed to mimic wave patterns. This piece serves as a visual metaphor for the complex processes of neural networking, offering an artistic view to these scientific phenomena.
My approach is mainly artistic, diverging from the scientific methods typically employed in neural networking, which rely on mathematical functions and machine (deep) learning to generate forms. While creating and replicating aesthetics is fascinating within the art world, the concept of pattern learning holds significant relevance across both modern science and various art disciplines. This leads me to wonder how we can create spaces that encourage the merging of different disciplines. My curiosity lies in the exploration of these spaces, where art and science merge to enrich our collective understanding and appreciation of the world around us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkwXa7Cvfr8&t=648s by Emergent Garden.
Abyss
Still image from Abyss , 2023.Abyss is playful work, drawing inspiration from figures and diagrams from academic textbooks and research papers. The work wanders between being an aesthetically “meaningless” object and active symbol. The background essay G.E.B is available in the Texts section.