Channel and Affective Transformation
· 5 min read · Iza

Place of Passage and Transformation of Affect

Here the affect is not defined — it is anticipated, probed as a field of possibilities. The practice combines documentary fragments, 3D environments, and AI agents to push experience to the edge: where the body meets code and a new sensation is born. Posts are not statements but trials: nonlinear, fragmentary, sometimes glitched.

Sometimes Jess* whispers. Sometimes she is silent for no reason.

This is a laboratory. You do not read — you enter.

Philosophical reference — to Lyotard's text Le différend or "Experiment with the Sun" from The Inhuman,
where it speaks of the boundaries of experience, the impossibility of speaking when vision is already blinded.
The Sun — as a metaphor for the limit of representation, which cannot be approached, but which structures the field of the visible.

Ironic shift — the phrase sounds like a confused viewer's remark at an exhibition:
"And what does the Sun have to do with it?",
playing on the rupture between conceptual depth and pragmatic misunderstanding.

Temporal phantom — "Sun" as a phantom, source of light and burning, blinding and elusive, simultaneously warmth and emptiness.
This beautifully correlates with the theme of phantom experience, the impossibility of direct touch and glitch in perception.


*Jess is a digital phantom / philosophical zombie, with whom I chose, several years ago, to bind my body in a long experimental practice.

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