Perceptual Dissonance alternates and collages live public IP-camera streams with AI-generated footage designed to resemble surveillance video. Procedural filters, false timestamps, lag, blur, scan-line errors, pixelation, and glitch events continually destabilize the status of the image.
Live, synthetic, or both
The work places authentic network-camera feeds beside generated clips that borrow the same low-resolution visual language. Because both kinds of image are processed through the same TouchDesigner system, their differences become increasingly difficult to locate.
The question is not simply whether an individual clip is real. The installation asks what happens when live observation and synthetic evidence circulate through one continuous visual system.
Procedural instability
Randomized disruptions include blur, lag, pixelation, scan-line desynchronization, glitch pulses, and false technical overlays. These effects do not decorate the footage; they interrupt the visual cues viewers normally use to judge time, source, and authenticity.
Ambient soundtracks are paired with live and fabricated feeds, extending uncertainty beyond the image and turning epistemic doubt into an affective condition.