Assignment | Sloth's Slumber

Tim Xiaotian Fan

There's Something Beyond The Real

-2024.11.19- On Passing Stange By Stew We want the song, but we don't wanna BE a song. We want to be loved, but love will never come if...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

It's all about the balance - right?

-10.27.2024- On Norman, “Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better.” Aesthetics vs. function, durability vs. lightness, artistic...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

Excerpt From Mix Against a Preoccupied Notion

-10.22.2024- What makes mixing so difficult? The answer could be the complications of the signal chain, the details in tweaking...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

A Peek Into The Dream Kingdom - On Gaye Su Akyol Performance

-10.01.2024- It is difficult for me, as well as for many, to distinguish if studying the music before a concert would be conducive to...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

Reflection on Attempting to Define Interactivity

-09.14.2024- On The Art of Interactive Design, Ch. 1 By all means, this passage intrigued me first by its plain and candid tone and...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

Sensation Seized My Sound & On Sol Invictus By Herve Koubi

-09.10.2024- Imaginatively kinetic contemporary and urban dance. Above is the byline on Sol Invictus's poster. By all means, there's no...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

Randomness and Control on Generative Arts and Beyond

-09.08.2024- This reflection was written on Eyeo2012 - Casey Reas By all means, what does 'generative' stand for? And what about...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

On Portrait, Self-Portrait, and Narrative

-08.27.2024- Sometimes I wonder if there is indeed some force behind coincidence - especially when those coincidences are of my...

Tim Xiaotian Fan

Forced Haiku Practice

-09.2022~10.2022- I Fluttering are posts. They’re sopped incognito, Till bubbles popped broke. II Pupils are straggling, Resulting from...