Studies on Images of Self-Organization and Time

Studies on Images of Self-Organization and Time is an audiovisual essay built in response to atta, treating image and sound as two time-making systems that sometimes lock together, sometimes drift, and sometimes interfere. Rather than illustrating the music, the montage tests how synchrony and dis-synchrony can produce a “third” rhythm that belongs to neither track alone, but emerges in the viewer’s experience.

All visual materials are sourced from others: individual makers, scientific publications, and public institutions that each describe their images as forms of self-organization or self-determination within their own contexts. Reframed through editing, these fragments move across scales, from microscopic and cellular processes to weather systems, social movement, and cosmological simulation. Texture and light function as temporal agents—grain, noise, surface detail, and shifts of illumination become rhythmic events—so that time is felt not as a grid imposed on the work, but as a pattern that appears, stabilizes, and dissolves through interaction. The piece proposes montage as a method for thinking across scales, where perception becomes the site in which disparate processes briefly cohere, then separate again.

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