in-progress
2026
Multi-channel audiovisual installation with real-time temporal processes, layered projection, spatialized sound, and networked sensing system.
Keepsakes in Every Hair ~ Migration is a multi-channel audiovisual installation that explores migration as both geographic movement and a shifting condition of perception, memory, and identity. The work unfolds through layered projections and spatialized sound shaped by six distinct temporal processes: human time, liminal time, environmental time, digital time, infrastructure time, and more-than-human time. Each temporality offers a different way of sensing change, drift, and transition.
These temporal processes function as perceptual agents within the installation. Drawing from atmospheric and emotional cues found in collaborator Masayoshi Ishikawa’s memories and musical compositions, each process carries a slightly different rhythm of interpretation. They respond to real-time information from the surrounding environment, reorganizing fragments of sound, image, and text in ways that feel intuitive, atmospheric, and reflective of how memory softens or intensifies across time.
The installation treats time as migratory rather than linear. Moments loop, echo, dissolve, and reform. Short piano motifs appear like flashes of recollection, marking instances when human memory and machinic interpretation briefly touch. These interruptions draw attention to the instability of remembering and the continual reconfiguration of lived experience as it moves across systems, bodies, and places.
Rather than presenting computation as a generative engine, the work positions it as one perceptual layer within a broader temporal environment. Keepsakes examines how contemporary technologies, environmental conditions, and personal histories can intertwine to create shifting constellations of presence. The installation extends my ongoing research into the screen as an active collaborator and explores how distributed forms of sensing can shape the ways we carry and transform our keepsakes into the future.
