Noise as Signal: Rorschach's Garden as Iterative Transduction

Rorschach's Garden is a single-channel audiovisual installation that treats noise as its primary material. Video footage is pushed through deliberate degradation and recursive AI regeneration, an iterative palimpsest built by discarding most of what each cycle produces. Audio follows a parallel but distinct logic: AI systems interpret the finished imagery into text, then into raw musical stems, curated into a sonic palette and layered into its own palimpsest against the edited image. Named for the Rorschach inkblot test, the work treats its AI pipeline as an administered test, presenting ambiguous material and harvesting the system's response, and inverts computational audiovisual practice's default pull toward coherence, treating generative systems as engines of divergence rather than resolution.