As a reflection on our increasingly digitized and hyperconnected world, *Spore 1* is a digital experiment inspired by video-game alchemy and the healing properties of nature and botanics. It uses computer-generated textures, produced by photogrammetric scans of plants and flowers, to offer a mediative remedy for our ever-increasing screen time. The looping video grows in an organic yet algorithmic way, showing that the world works best when the natural and digital coexist harmoniously.


Sian Fan is an interdisciplinary artist based in London. Her work combines movement, the body, and technology to explore embodiment, spirituality, and human experience in the digital age.

As a reflection on our increasingly digitised and hyperconnected world, ‘Spore 1’ is a digital experiment, inspired by video-game alchemy and the healing properties of nature and botanics. It uses computer-generated textures, produced by photogrammetric scans of plants and flowers to offer a mediative remedy for our ever-increasing screen time.

The looping video grows in an organic yet algorithmic way, showing that the world works best when the natural and digital coexist harmoniously.


Spore 1

Rendering by the Water

Fin de fiesta

Unmelted Places

HOLOGRAPHIC DANCE

The Green Window

Ultimate Ave

Genesis 4

Persian Jungle House

*Rendering by the Water* is a selection of female-identifying and non-binary perspectives on inhabiting reality and dreams, between the natural, the inner, the domestic, the outer, and the imaginary worlds.


We recognize images as they shape shift, formless; textures vibrate, glow, transform, in a time-based exploration of identity and subjectivity that is fluid and true to the principles of their own queerness, and therefore merging with facts and reality in a diffractive way.
They materialize dream-like realms and “out of this world” perspectives on seemingly mundane, ordinary things and notions of space or natural order. And they do that not as immaterial mirages or illusions, rather, they contribute to the forming of a new consciousness, beyond our limited perceptions, beyond what is presently imaginable. Audre Lorde said it’s through dreams that revelations, that new meaning and knowledge might infiltrate and inform existing structures to organize and function differently, in an act of taking up space that occurs outside the dominant methods and means.


Almost like psychological spaces, maybe self-portraits, these works are rendered as fastical forms to stretch our imagination and provide access to visions and alternative knowledge that might be capable of contributing to world-making and meaningful transformations in the material world.

Nine perspectives on inhabiting reality and dreams.

Spore 1

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