Horror Vacui

Horror Vacui is a single-channel video composed from fragments generated by a recursive interpretation loop running inside Assembly, an artist-built multi-agent apparatus. The loop was started from a blank image and a written brief setting out the condition to be addressed, then left to run. Dozens of sessions produced several hundred fragments, from which the final piece was composed by hand: some sequences kept intact as continuous tracks where the drift within a single run was the point, others reduced to one or two frames pulled from a session that yielded nothing else worth keeping. What the viewer sees is the trace of a machine that cannot leave a void alone. The image field saturates continuously with detail while never arriving at resolution. Structures propose themselves and are overwritten; forms declare significance and dissolve before it can be checked.