Xiaoxu
Han
Han
L.D.S(Lights, Dance, Simulation)
Xiaoxu Han: TouchDesigner, Motion Capture, Resloume
Jericho Ma: Editing, Cinema 4D, Motion Capture
L.D.S. (Lights, Dance, Simulation) is a video art piece that explores the fractured identity of the digital subject in an age of aesthetic recursion. Inspired by retro techno, Kraftwerk, FEMM, Balenciaga, and the abstract geometries of Paul Klee, the piece operates as a kind of digital cubism, where bodies, gestures, and references are broken apart, flattened, and reassembled into something both uncanny and seductive.
The video centers on a procession of suited male figures, anonymous, synchronized, endlessly looped. They dance not out of joy, but obligation, their movements are mechanized, awkward, hyper-stylized. Their presence evokes both corporate uniformity and cybernetic rebirth, echoing the cultural residue of late capitalism, boy bands, and androids.
L.D.S. is a meditation on simulation, repetition, and aesthetic failure as a form of liberation. It asks: what does it mean for something to look “bad” or “good” when those terms have collapsed under the weight of irony and overexposure? Can rawness, awkwardness, even ugliness, be a form of truth in an over-produced world?
By blending fashion with low-fidelity, vintage with synthetic, L.D.S. invites viewers into a liminal space where time folds, identity fragments, and meaning glitches.