The Fugue
One channel video (played on iPad)
performance of a person being trapped between twoho library cabinets, overlaid by a generative adversarial network imitating the visual composition by successively generating patterns, discriminating them against the given data, and creating a binary output.

fugue, Merriam-Webster Dictionary
noun
/ˈfyüg/
1
a
: a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts
The organist played a four-voiced fugue.

b
: something that resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements
… a story that … is as rich and multilayered as a fugue.
— Heather Vogel Frederick

2
: a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed





Palimpsets of Cicatrix


Hair and scoby


Bathtub, showerhead in concrete, kombucha in aquarium, dried up scoby on unfolded cardboard box, broken sink, glasses filled with molding food sealed with cement.


Studio 1 (Wooden cabinet)


Studio 2 (Boxes)