The 108 Defilements of the Mind (2024, rev. 2025)
Single-channel video with stereo sound · 9:01 · 1920×1080, 30 fps
The 108 Defilements of the Mind is a meditation on the ubiquity of short-form content. Programmed in TouchDesigner, the visuals depict traditional Korean Buddhist prayer beads (yeomju), referencing the 108 defilements that obstruct enlightenment. To create the complementary video effects, AI models (Claude and Gemini) were invited to propose visual processes responding to the work's contemplative framework. The piece uses identical audiovisual elements but expands temporally from a five-second duration to nine minutes, examining how time fundamentally alters meaning and perception. By directly interrogating our contemporary relationship with attention, the work proposes slowness as both a form of resistance and a revelation within an increasingly compressed media ecology.