Temporal Recursion

Temporal Recursion

Z Zhang

Thesis Faculty:

Ernesto Klar, Richard The

A recursive video sculpture with delayed feedback.

Temporal Recursion is a video sculpture that consists of a camera continuously filming a CRT television that displays the same footage 15 seconds later.

A TV inside a TV inside a TV inside a TV…

I see myself inside the TV inside the TV inside the TV…

If the TV inside the TV is an illusion, which TV is real?

Are they all real? Or are they all illusions?

How do I know that I am not inside a TV?

How do you know that you are not inside a TV?

Z Zhang

BFA design & technology
Z Zhang is an artist and filmmaker working with time-based media including 16mm film, electroacoustic sound, and video sculpture. Through feedback systems, repetition, and camera-based processes, her work constructs experiences where space and time become unstable.