Water
A physical substance that circulates, evaporates, condenses and depends on environmental conditions.
13 / MOVING IMAGE RESEARCH
Flowing Identities
2026Material ↔ DataFour-person collaboration
WATER / DATA / DIGITAL IDENTITYFlowing
Flowing
Identities
If matter never disappears but only changes form, what happens to our identities when they become data?
Flowing Identities uses water as a metaphor and material system for digital identity. Evaporation, condensation, residue and circulation become ways to think about how data leaves the body, travels through networks, recombines and persists beyond our control.
Matter changes state. Data changes form. Neither simply disappears.
Data
Identity leaves the body, enters infrastructures and becomes stored, transmitted and interpreted.
Residue
What remains becomes trace, archive and evidence—available for recombination beyond its origin.
Deletion is not disappearance. The self may persist as residue, recombination and patterns interpreted by systems we cannot fully see.
Flow becomes a visual language across material, screen and body.
RESIDUE
Sediment, glitches and translucent layers make persistence visible without treating identity as a fixed portrait.
LIVE IMAGE
TouchDesigner translates circulation and recording into responsive image behaviour.
TEMPORAL EDITING
Layered footage and sound move between bodily presence, transmission and afterimage.
Obsolete and contemporary screens hold one unstable digital body.
A moving-image installation turns water experiments, live visual processing and data textures into a meditation on persistence and digital selfhood.
↗View the complete project PDFResearch, experiments, collaboration and outcomeFormatCollaborative project · 2026
ContributionI completed approximately 90% of the project, including research, concept, moving-image experiments, visual development, TouchDesigner work and production; another team member supported the final layout.
MethodsMoving image · Material experiments · TouchDesigner · Data visualisation · Metaphor mapping · Installation
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