DISTORTED PERCEPTION

Digital Art & Video Installation

With
Gotaute Kalmatavičituè

Distorted Perception is a visual inquiry into the construction of reality and the impossibility of neutral, objective self-observation. Grounded in the neuroscientific thesis that our brain actively constructs our surroundings, the work questions whether an undistorted perception of the self can truly exist. In a world of digital reflections, the body becomes a site of technological deconstruction.


In the performance by Gotautė Kalmatavičiūtė, movement manifests as a fragmented process of becoming. Brigitte Fässler’s visual language utilizes high-resolution 8K digital capture as raw material to blur the line between physical presence and digital abstraction.

Through a meticulous process of frame-by-frame manipulation, the footage was deconstructed and re-synthesized using a custom-engineered algorithm. This code simulates and manipulates a rolling shutter effect to break the temporal logic of motion, placing the dancer in a state of permanent metamorphosis. The result is a sensory poetry that oscillates between objective documentation and subjective distortion—a silent resonance on the fragility of our perception.

"Distorted perception" was part of the contemporary & Digital Art Fair CADAF Paris, 2021