JACOB GABRIEL WEINER

the feed folds inward is an audiovisual study of computational perception and temporal abstraction. Sourced from a rapidly scrolling internet feed, the original imagery renders inaccessible — its velocity erases legibility. What remains is the technological substrate: pulses, gradients, and folds produced by sensor behavior, refresh-rate interference, and algorithmic smoothing.

Slowed to roughly 1% of its original speed, the work expands micro-temporal events into experiential duration. Rolling-shutter scan drifts, denoising patterns, and interpolation flickers emerge as the image mutates, revealing the device’s own temporality. The audio undergoes the same recursive stretching, transforming seconds of ambient computer-fan hum into extended drones that expose the machine’s internal hyper-materiality.

The split screen presents the same visual stream in two directional flows. They drift in and out of alignment — at moments converging, then gradually drifting apart. This oscillation turns the shared horizon into a zone of digital tension, a site where motion meets, dissolves, and reforms. The seam makes perceptible the system’s micro-instabilities and the shifting temporal structures embedded within digital images.