Li Series

Digital Video Processes / Datamoshing - Videos - Single Channel

Li is a concept found in neo-confucianism Chinese philosophy used in taoism to depict the underlying reason and order of nature expressed in its organic forms. Li is way of describing the structure of flow found in the natural world as compared to human's predominantly rectilinear forms. The Li Series is a body of work that uses digital processes and datamoshing to explore this flavor of flowing composition within digital video.

These works explore noise and the flow of texture. Some are time stretched recordings of the ocean, recorded from cliffs edges and the sides of ferry boats, some are recorded videos processed through glitch art datamoshing techniques, in which video compression algorithms are intentionally broken or misused to smear pixels and loop movement of form. As a whole they are a collection of noise and flow that encapsulates my aesthetic interest in noise fields and the taoist concept of Li. A field of energies with no central focal point, a wide awareness that spreads out as a living sea.