5′
Single Channel Video
Full-HD, 16:9, Stereo Sound
2025
Commissioned work for “String Theory String Practice“ exhibition at Kunstraum Leuphana in Germany – November 2025.
[weaving] becomes the next instalment in Jaron’s ongoing INTERLACEDISORDER series of glitched digital videos created in a pursuit of discovering unseen audiovisual experiences based on digital glitches and personal experience. His process relies mostly on a method called “HEX-editing” where the code of video files is deliberately and irreversibly altered.
[weaving]
Ever since going abroad to Hong Kong for two years as part of my double-degree at Leuphana, life has been split between two places almost opposite to each other on the globe. This experience sparked fundamental questions about belonging and home and what it means to be entangled in two separate social and cultural contexts. And while this experience vastly broadened my perception and understanding of the world, and even more so of myself, the physical distance between both places kept them ultimately separate parts of my life.
This work is one of multiple attempts to bridge this distance, bringing experiences of both places closer together. By inserting my written thoughts directly into the code of my archival videos in a process called HEX-editing, I try to make visible the act of injecting myself into foreign contexts and its irreversible consequence on me on a digital level.
The process can be compared to the workings of early automated looms, where the resulting pattern of a fabric becomes unpredictable when errors are introduced to the hole-punch cards giving the machine its instructions. The code of the videos is disturbed in a similar way, diverting from the desired pattern of naturalistic playback of a recording. Disturbing and rearranging the algorithmic instructions needed for digital decoding of video files glitches these videos out in unpredictable ways reflecting the sudden changes in my own perception of self and thought-to-be-known frameworks of life when entering new environments.
This work stands as an invitation to re-find structure in these disturbances where we may discover a more accurate representation of life in its chaotic and often unrecognisable nature, though always inheriting an unmistakable beauty in its flaws and errors.
