Oscillation in Sight & Hue Shift
NAN WANG
Immersive audio-visual Experience
DIY 16mm projectors and 16mm footage from a DIY camera
Oscillation in Sight & Hue Shift offers an immersive audio-visual experience, unveiling the hidden beauty of light refraction through transparent materials. Utilizing DIY projectors and 16mm footage from a DIY camera, the performance intricately weaves together visuals and sound.
Inspired by the binary system of I Ching hexagrams, the composition creates a dynamic cycle of mesmerizing audio-visual experiences.

DtoA Printer
The initial idea of DtoA toolkit was to develop a tool for my personal project: It uses the light emitting from a laptop screen to expose half transparent materials on 16mm film stock. However, later I realized D&A toolkit has huge potential to become an open-source analogue film production toolkit that will dramatically reduce the cost and limitation of analogue film practice.
The massive shift to digital in the film industry created an unprecedented situation for the artist film lab network, leaving the future of celluloid in the hands of artists. The unique image qualities of analogue film attract many young artists to experiment with celluloid to do what digital camera can’t achieve
D&A Toolkit is open source, portable, module-base analogue film production toolkit, that will enable analogue practitioners to produce analogue moving images from start to finish with only a computer, a few DIY electronics and some laser-cut constructions. With the help of digital tools and technology, D&A toolkit brings creative opportunities for DIY analogue film productions to explore new ways of creating moving images. Using computer screen as a light source would provide more control over the shape and intensity of light, as well as the possibility to use and manipulate digital images as found footage on film. The module-based mechanical system build with Arduino-based electronics would enable custom setting for all the possible options in frame-by-frame animations and contact printing.
DtoA toolkits consist of both hardware construction and software support. Currently, DtoA toolkit still in prototype design phase. So far, it consists of two modules: the first mode enables frame by frame animation. The second mode carry out actions automatically. The ability to modify the toolkit gives open possibilities to fit personal needs and insert additional functions. Even though the commercial film production industry is dying because of digital technology, however, on another hand the DtoA toolkit take advantage of existing digital tools and technology to reinforce the Do-It-Yourself analogue practice, reclaimed an artistic freedom with which they can build an alternative to mainstream mass media and video art.

Nan Wang (1986, China) multi-disciplinary media artist and experimental filmmaker, employs a poetic, abstract visual language to construct immersive experiences. She frequently discovers beauty and philosophical meanings in discarded man-made objects or substances, creating artworks that center around themes of identity, perceptions, technology, and social interactions. Utilizing both new and old technologies, her portfolio encompasses interactive projection installations, optical devices, live audiovisual performances, and experimental films.
Nan Wang is a core member of Filmwerkplaats: an artist-run film lab in Rotterdam. Her artworks are currently distributed by LIMA Amsterdam and EYE Experimental.
https://nanwang.org/