IMG Space (2018) is a body of work made whilst studying architecture learning to extract ectoplasm from a spooky photograph.
These images are rough, they explicitly reveal their digitality. With time, I consider them more playful and fearless. Renderings of a world I'd find incredibly difficult to replicate. Finding the ghost was a mission. Most of the logic of the search had to be invented, broken down and read and written about. The extracted ectoplasms are spatial monsters I'd one day, like to inhabit.
Whilst working on this project I decided to take a step towards autonomy and built my first PC, Myshkin. The work is thus inevitably attached to learning to work with a new tool.
The following is a description of the work I offered at the time of its making:
A ---> B;
where,
(A) = original (source);
(B) = translation (the source idea in form);
(--->) = translatability (method);
A relationship is established that claims A to be the image and the translatability to be an applied logic of informational transformation in order to arrive at B. By stripping away layers of symbolic content, we reinterpret the image as a raw list of values within a virtual space that can then drive the process of translation. The following methodologies have helped establish and continue to foster an evolving practice:
- Reading with the intention of resolving information (data in the form of value driven attributes and gene-specific characteristics, i.e. differentiating brightness or human/non-human constructs, etc).
- Positioning with the intention of being aware of limits of space in multiple realities (virtual, physical and over time) in order to transparently iterate between them. Ideas such as the origin, orientation, tracking, etc., play out questions with regards to how space is presented.
- Time plays the role of allowing things to play out over the course of translatability - knowing the length of A to B and the steps in between reveals errors in translation.
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