I only experience things in latent space now.

"I only experience things in latent space now." is a personal meditation on how the algorithm and I reconstruct and deconstruct each other. It borrows the structure of Indra's Net (the Hindu and Buddhist image of an infinite net where every jewel reflects every other) as a stand-in for the algorithm, a net we're all caught reflecting in. I run my own childhood memories through old video diffusion models as they try, and fail, to make sense of them, remembering and generalizing at once.

Reworking footage from LAND, clips of South Asian "brainrot" and internet ephemera get pushed through the infrastructural layers of video models (depth, attention, uncertainty, motion tracking) to expose how this model/deity/demon actually thinks. It's indebted to Harun Farocki's operational images. The found footage does a second job too: pulling these figures out of the "lolcow" status the colonial Western gaze and the domestic classist-casteist gaze pin them in, and looking for what's poetic and divine in them instead.

Reworks footage from LAND (2025). Score by Cash. Screened at Shortwave × Soft Centre (Vivid Live), Sydney Opera House, 28 May 2026. Runtime 6:06.