JJ is an interdisciplinary artist investigating the synthesis between embodied experience and artificial systems, exploring the ontological shifts that occur when sensing is delegated to machine processes.
Their selected work, REM, is a non-narrative moving image work that explores perception as it shifts between bodily experience and machine-generated vision. Rooted in the artist’s own experiences of waking hallucinations and the liminal states just before sleep, the work is generated through deliberately ambiguous sensory prompts, producing images that drift, repeat, and gradually lose clarity. These visual instabilities are not aesthetic by-products, but central to the work’s inquiry into perceptual failure and system saturation.Rather than presenting a fixed reality, a recurring interior space appears throughout the film as something continually rewritten—each return slightly altered, dimmer, or less stable, like an overwritten memory.
Through editing and sound, these fragments are organized into a looping perceptual circuit. REM approaches perception not as representation, but as an ongoing, unresolved negotiation between the fragile human body, unstable images, and computational processes.