live Expanded Cinema performance by human infrastructure

film-circuit in series

31 MAY 2025

At 19:00 in Draamasaali, Vaasa City Library

Human Infrastructure

Human infrastructure is a Seoul-based audiovisual noise duo. Human infrastructure combines noise music with experiments in expanded cinema to create cybernetic systems in which sound and film image modulate each other. Their idea of audio-visual is not one in which audio affects visuals in a causal way, or visuals determine the sound, but rather one in which audio and visual build upon each other through the incorporation of multiple bodies. Recently, they have been focusing on inscribing generative images on film through electrochemical interventions, and are developing devices to operate them. Human infrastructure also runs Gäro, a lab for experimental analog audiovisuals, to organize screenings, seminars, and workshops for and by artists and scholars of moving images. They have opened for Experimental Film & Video Festival EXiS in 2023 and performed at WeSA Festival in Seoul.

About the performance Film-Circuit in Series

Film-Circuit in Series reveals the hidden energies of silver halide film, treating it as both image and circuit. Two circuits intertwine: one of tin dendrites, grown upon the organic patterns of video feedback, and the other etched by high-voltage discharge. By triggering the spark through the dendritic circuit, human infrastructure generates Lichtenberg figures, fractal patterns tracing electricity’s passage, in real time.

Inspired by Kirlian photography’s attempt to reveal the aura of living beings, this process exposes a hidden ‘nervous system’ within the film—fragile veins of metal shimmering with spectral energy. As these electrical traces emerge and dissolve, the film becomes a site of unstable transmissions, where matter itself pulses with a ghostly charge.