I will show a series of test pieces and my thinking behind these based upon my research and on feedback as well as using the creative process as a way to discover.
In this month’s post I show work continuing my exploration into glitch art and the accidental corruption of image files on my home computer because of a video card which is no longer supported by Adobe Photoshop. I could change the card but like the accidental nature of these images over which I have no control. My tutor suggested that this could be aligned to feelings of death which for most of us, is outwith our control.
I started to save these examples of accidental corruption. Below I show some examples. These have not been subject to any manual edit.
I also started to experiment with trying to manually create the glitches and in subverting the original images. I did this through using glitch tutorials I found online and learning how to manually shift the colour paths and channels in an image file. I also experimented with extreme colour and contrast shifts. Below I show a selection of examples of these tests.
In these works I ask myself, how do these images make me feel, do these speak to me of the liminal death space and do I like any of these pieces?
My favourite is corruption example #09 which I think I like because of its simplicity. The video card error has filled 2/3rds of the image with a red cast. Could this be blood or is it reminiscent of a sunset? The colour shift from red to original also produces an obvious barrier.
My image example #14 was originally a picture of the texture of velvet of chairs in a concert hall with the metal folding mechanism and armrest.I was attracted to the shape and colour but does this corruption speak to me of death or just of confusion? Does it need to be part of a larger work?
All in all, an interesting start but at the same time oddly unsatisfying. For this reason, I worked on some images using album images as an extension of the image I liked best in this test. These are shown at following link: