THE FACE FIELD (MIND GARDEN), Audio-Visual Artwork, 4K video, 9x16 (4:03 minutes), 2026.
3D sculpting and rendering, AI generative image processing, sound compositions: Tanja Vujinovic
Production: Tanja Vujinovic / Ultramono
Consulting: Mika Pi (software engineering), Ultramono community
THE FACE FIELD
THE FACE FIELD explores identity as a fluid and continuously evolving system. Within the video, a sequence of hybrid faces emerges, transforms, and dissolves into one another, forming a shifting constellation of beings that appear simultaneously human, technological, and otherworldly.
These faces function less as portraits than as dynamic structures assembled from fragments of signals, symbols, and biological traces. Elements reminiscent of multiple species, synthetic textures, and fragments of digital culture converge within each transformation. As masks exchange features and morph across the screen, identity appears not as a fixed condition but as a field of ongoing negotiation between bodies, technologies, and environments.
The work reflects on the ways contemporary life unfolds within networks of communication, emotional signals, and technological mediation. Emoji-like symbols, luminous patterns, and synthetic surfaces appear as carriers of affect, circulating through the faces like visible currents of thought and feeling.
In THE FACE FIELD, diversity becomes a generative force. Each transformation expands the spectrum of possible selves, suggesting that identity is inherently plural, relational, and open-ended.
Rather than presenting the face as a stable marker of individuality, the video proposes a landscape of identities in constant movement. Within this shifting field, difference is not a deviation from the norm but the very condition through which new forms of perception, empathy, and coexistence can emerge.
As part of the broader MIND GARDEN installation, THE FACE FIELD contributes to a larger ecosystem of signals, organisms, and neural landscapes. Yet the work also stands independently as a meditation on the multiplicity of the self and the strange, evolving forms that identity may take in a technologically mediated world.