Expanded Cinema

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19th
22:15

Echoes Between Seeing is a series of ongoing audiovisual experiments unfolding in the liminal space between the real and the generative, the visible and the imagined. Combining analog noise textures, travel footage, and AI-driven synthesis, the work investigates how perception stitches together fragments of experience, filling the gaps with memory and imagination.

In Echoes Between Seeing #1, the audiovisual performance takes shape as a continuous reprocessing of visual material, inviting audiences to navigate the shifting threshold between the real and the synthetic, the seen and the felt. It sets the raw imperfections of 16mm film grain against the fluid, dreamlike reconstructions produced by AI. Through image-to-image processes in Stable Diffusion, fleeting impressions of transit and place are reimagined as hybrid landscapes—neither fully human nor fully artificial, neither documentation nor hallucination. Suspended in this state of in-betweenness, the images reflect the ways perception bridges the distance between recognition and abstraction.

Performance Duration: 25 min

Short bio:

Nan Wang is a media artist and experimental filmmaker who employs poetic
and abstract visual languages to create immersive experiences. Her work
integrates both new and old technologies in the form of interactive
projection installations, audiovisual performances, and experimental
films.
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Robert Kroos is a sound artist -designer based in Rotterdam. He explores
music and sound in all its manifestations and prefers to use his skills
to support film, audio visual performance, and installations. His
interests focus on sine-waves and finding structure within the
unpredictability of generative music.