Diffusion2025. KR. Arbor, Tzu Ni

Live audiovisual performance & installation
Multi-channel video & audio

The image-making abilities of the projector are derived from its function as a light-emitting apparatus. With digital projectors, this light (alongside sound) can be generated, controlled, and produced through virtual simulations. Diffusion is composed of real-time light and sound producing simulations controlled by their speed (time) and the performer’s gestures, approaching a kind of live-puppetered poetry of light and sound.

Diffusion begins where the image ends; in its disappearance the encounter between light and screen is made strikingly clear. The piece lives in space rather than on the screen, which merely shows the perceivable portion of what moves towards the invisible.
Artist Technical Talk. National Asian Culture Center (ACC). Gwangju, KR. Dec 29, 2025
Behind the scenes of a light and sound producing simulation

With my eyes closed, shifts of light and sound became something larger — contours of an object beyond what I could see. While digitally mediated, its texture was material, almost spiritual, and its vigorous movements conveyed traces of life.

Aldo Schwartz

Sound drifts, carrying traces of data, breath, and distant signals, while light arrives only indirectly soft halos, trembling reflections, afterimages that refuse to reveal too much.

Images assembling and dissolving in response to sonic currents. Together, audio and visual elements form a nocturnal database: non-linear, tender, and unresolved. Against the violence of solar clarity, the work listens to darkness as a way of knowing, where meaning is sensed, not extracted, and knowledge emerges through care, attenuation, and shared attunement rather than exposure.

Tzu Ni