The above shot is a picture of a movie playing on a TV, where the TV screen's HDMI cable was exhibiting a faulty performance. Random, distorted lines formed across the TV as a result of the cable's deteriorating service. I took a picture of the image and altered it a little in photo shop, to accentuate a claimed aesthetic. I am interested in the process of disintegration and how the destruction of the object is simultaneously a neo-formation as it disintegrates from the original form into the next. I am starting to consider the post-states of an object, or even a person. This has led me to an interest in posthumanism and transhumanism theories. Digital deterioration and collage, have been important to my works in the past and I have ideas for new projects with these mediums, more specifically collage and even performance at this point. The above is a simple exercise in repurposing a disintegrating product to give it new life here, as I claim it to be an art item.
I read an article on line about the re-use of digital-detritus, or "digitritus". The author of this article creates his work, specifically by using digital garbage - unused 3D model frames taken from various movies. Through his works, the author discusses the new life each piece of digitritus takes on, and questions the ethics of corporate legality, when considering rights to the ownership of a product. The link's below...
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