I make trans-media objects in both material and immaterial: these objects are conductors to thought experiments, fictional narratives, unanswerable questions, and states of boundaries.  My work moves across the boundaries between truth-to-nature and hyper-reality in post-natural contexts, and aim to examine human-nature relationship esepcially human contemporary perception and cognition to Post-nature. 

I consider my way of working to be somewhere between objectivity and aesthetics. I often using modelling, simulating and mapping as a method of work. Specifically, I am interested in the ontology of Nature and its fundamental concepts. Such as time, space, light, model, binary, units, and measurement, and language. I examine the ways of knowing (including seeing) by individuals, such as model and simulation, truth and reality, materiality and immateriality, seeing and resolution, exactitude and abstraction,  time and memory. At the same time, I feel intimate with the non-human agency, such as flowers, waves, and clouds. These concepts and elements meet in the present in the form of the garden of forking paths: constructing new contexts and meanings: in particular, questions about the nonlinear perception and cognition of nature and post-nature are raised.  By analysing the sublime, the weirdness, and the beautiful, and how these concepts frame and refine the human experience that ultimately becomes the foundation of aesthetics (Aesthetic Theory by Adorno).

I often seek for my research from contexts other than visual arts to various fields from history or future that give artistic meaning and general thinking that has been continued by human society, including philosophy, fiction, history, cutting-edge Technology, scientific theory and linguistics, etc.






currently base in Califonia, US
fei.pan@berkeley.edu