Perception Vortex

Perception Vortex

Perception Vortex is an audio-reactive video installation that visualizes the processes of perception through the movement of artistic forms. Memories generate an ever-changing environment in which the act of seeing continuously evolves. Created in Quartz Composer with a recreated Rutt/Etra video synthesizer, the work is inspired by Steina and Woody Vasulka. The source material consists of my old photographs of flowers and other objects. They recall an important period of my life, but time distorts them in memory; they dissolve and give rise to new forms. Their texture and color are transformed within the three-dimensional space of the digital environment, conceptualized here as the materiality of memory. The viewer is invited to reflect on their own perceptual process and recognize the continuous participation of memory within it. How we perceive things now is conditioned by our past, yet its boundaries are constantly expanding, accumulating ever-new, layered distortions.

Moonth | RU

Moonth is a new media artist based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His artistic practice began with electronic music and macro photography, forming the foundations of his approach: improvisational co-authorship with the machine in real time, and a focus on the complexity of real-world textures. Since 2016, he has worked as a self-taught media artist, exploring the nature of object’s movement as their inner poetics. Moonth’s works have been featured at Creative Code New York, Athens Digital Arts Festival, CTM Berlin, FILE Sao Paulo, and other international festivals. He has also created visuals for a ballet performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia. Currently, his work seeks to overcome digital alienation by reincorporating the immediacy of presence and artistic expression found in the real world. By combining the textures of physical objects with digital techniques, he pursues new forms of materiality in media art.