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Semantic Drift [Ein Sof]

Generative video made by recursive algorithm.

Continuous loop.

2025

“Semantic Drift [Ein Sof]” is a generative moving-image work built from Wikimedia Commons. Beginning with a small set of elemental words such as window, dust, stone, and shadow, the algorithm retrieves images from the archive. The metadata attached to those images is then used as new search terms, setting a recursive loop in motion. As the sequence unfolds, images gradually drift from the original lexicon, moving through increasingly unstable associations. Periodic pauses between searches, caused by a delay in the code, remain visible in the final work and introduce a halting rhythm to the flow of images. The subtitle Ein Sof refers to the Kabbalistic concept of the infinite. Here, it points to the archive itself as a seemingly boundless field in which images and meanings continually recombine and resist settling into fixed form.

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