
left: tree, 750 x 2000 mm, Sept. 2005 Compressionism is an ironic title for a series of works that use simple technologies to "capture and compress" subjects, then "edits and exhibits" them to explore different ways of looking. In the near future, I’ll play with video-based and sonic Compressionist studies; for now, I’ve been performing with a moving scanner and PhotoShop to produce the images – which I eventually turn into large-scale, archival prints. There’s some (video) documentation of the first experiments and their exhibition (April 2005, with Marcus Neustettter’s afterimages) here, and my latest studies (new ones finished today!) will henceforth be housed here. Compressionism grew out of serial faces, featured in Leonardo 38:3
Compressionism revisited
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