lifelike (2021)

lifelike stages varied technological imitations of nature and investigates the degree to which natureassymbol has itself evolved into algorithmic process Utilizing the open source creative coding library p5js the outermost channels of video run through handmade javascript expressions modeling a spirograph and Brownian motion respectively The movement of the three video channels interact as interlaced found footage blends natural symbology with rote pattern algorithmic generation and most importantly the visualization of both nature and technologys operational mechanisms These representations are themselves inevitably crude and ineffectual yet the border at which human knowledge attempts to integrate the natural or the technonatural into its empirical organization is the onus of potential change In time the competing images crescendo into a virtual reality landscape deeply artificial yet singular in its affective potential a parallel nature a transhumanist Eden