ODI's Data as Culture Programme
Twelve frames from a corrupted video file are displayed using lenticular technology more frequently associated with popular 3D images of animals or architectural spaces. Here they illustrate a flat moment taken from machine error. The work raises questions about the status and aesthetics of corrupted digital files. It also plays with notions of animation, as our own movement around the work animates the image.
Lenticular photographic light boxes, each 56cm x 42cm
Data Anthropologies: Thomson & Craighead
25 March - 20 June 2015 at the Open Data Institute
Hybrid Landscapes
April 2017 – November 2019 at Digital Catapult, London
Closed, Processed, Static, Unknown
Pioneering media artists Jon Thomson (b.1969) & Alison Craighead (b.1971) make work informed by long-term, gently critical, explorations of the structures and social constructs of the Internet and the spaces of social media. They work across…
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