Tech Paralysis (2019)
Based on my dream and sleep paralysis, this video performance work tells the struggle of losing connections in the digital age.
This project began with glitch. One day, while cleaning my laptop,
I encountered a stack of waveform audio files dancing in an
uncanny wave.
A glitch.
A glitch.
I noticed more glitches when there was a period that I felt emotionally disconnected; suddenly errors occurred on my
phone, social media and video platforms.
Everything around me seemed eerily caught
in a field of glitch, sharing the same feeling
of disconnection.
Roger Penrose said, the logical calculation of a computer can not provoke intuition, as consciousness is not “algorithmic”. However, for me, glitches are the intuition of a machine. They break through
the barrier of programming, open up the
entry to uncertainty, and interfere with digits
from elsewhere.