using a physical box to control image manipulation: zooming, flipping, brightness
scanning room with mirror and camera:
scanlines in hands
doing 3d
traffic footage
a lot of work is taking a signal and transforming
deconstruction of the image
woody: human scannot live out of control bc we dont know what it means
steina: its no fun to go out and say im gonna make a masterpiece, but today im going to go and play with a material, thats interesting
journal called radical software from the 70s, a lot of discussion on alternative forms of television
take text in and out of a jpeg, itll work but breaks in a cool way
book: mp3, meaning of a format
mp3 has a really long history with signal processing, info studies, when we classify someting as sound vs music vs voice > make assumptions about those that's baked into the format. when you make a format you say what are you prioritizing, what info am i losing?
Previous week's reading
Today we'll talk about the materiality of file formats, glitch art, etc
Artist: Steina/Woody Vasulka
using a physical box to control image manipulation: zooming, flipping, brightness
scanning room with mirror and camera:
scanlines in hands
doing 3d
traffic footage
a lot of work is taking a signal and transforming
deconstruction of the image
journal called radical software from the 70s, a lot of discussion on alternative forms of television
https://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/index.html
slitscan: draw video over time, to smear it
glitch aesthetics essay : nature of glitch
Artist: Yasunao Tone
damaged a cd, make music from act of destroying
loud, a lot of anxiety stuck cd in walkmans, making music in that uncofmrotable space
similar: ryoji ikeda, noise rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CvnajExX-A
Artist: Rosa Menkman
what does resolution mean
book: vernacular of file formats
take text in and out of a jpeg, itll work but breaks in a cool way
book: mp3, meaning of a format
mp3 has a really long history with signal processing, info studies, when we classify someting as sound vs music vs voice > make assumptions about those that's baked into the format. when you make a format you say what are you prioritizing, what info am i losing?
interactive demo: unraveling the jpeg
research: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Woody-and-Steina-Vasulka--A3eBUZqlH2hAxWGFACgNpohhAg-vsyHDQGfc74BtabjzkQUI https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Rosa-Menkman--A3dwKH2QW634XMuFQDU9xdG_Ag-kk3IkorBkuovoyIR8vv9M