A͠E͜T̵H͞E͟R̸I̶S͡
Format: 1920 x 1080p, 29.97 NTSC 16:9
Found footage of natural microscopic phenomena—cellular activity, crystalline formations, and organic behaviors—processed through custom-modified analog video hardware to generate glitch textures. Accompanied by original analog electronic music, composed and performed by the artist.
Aetheris.
What was once actual, though its temporal origin remains uncertain, has entered the realm of the virtual. To bring chaos into focus, to enact what might be called chaosmosis, requires a stance: an attitude that serves as the primordial seed of creation.
Intentionality is at play here, unfolding in a song, a pattern, a gesture—a reaching toward form amidst the formless. This act of seeking shelter must endlessly renew itself, irrational cut after irrational cut. We stand at the edge of the immediate, welcoming what arises from elsewhere while simultaneously shaping our own transformation.
There is a cut, yes, but this does not mean the poles are severed. Rather, the cut reveals an emergence, a movement between two worlds, forging a link rather than a divide. From virtuality, something moves toward actuality; from potential, something becomes real. And yet, even in rupture, connection persists, a fugue-like thread through which meaning flows, binding modes across their differences.
Things find their shape in dialogue with chaos and order, shifting with the perspective that also creates. Sound and silence, image and void, each pulse embodies the perpetual becoming.