{"id":766,"date":"2005-09-13T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T08:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2006-04-12T07:16:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T05:16:18","slug":"compressionism-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/13\/compressionism-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Compressionism revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"187\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"500\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Compressionism, Compressionist study of tree\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/compressionism\/images\/tree.jpg?resize=187%2C500\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"right\" \/><small><strong>left: <em>tree<\/em>, 750 x 2000 mm<\/strong>, Sept. 2005<\/small>  <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\">Compressionism<\/a> is an ironic title for a series of works that use simple technologies to &quot;capture and compress&quot; subjects, then &quot;edits and exhibits&quot; them to explore different ways of looking. In the near future, I&#8217;ll play with video-based and sonic Compressionist studies; for now, I&#8217;ve been performing with a moving scanner and PhotoShop to produce the images &#8211; which I eventually turn into large-scale, archival prints. There&#8217;s some (video) documentation of the first experiments and their exhibition (April 2005, with <a href=\"http:\/\/onair.co.za\/mn\/\">Marcus Neustettter&#8217;s<\/a> <em>afterimages<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\/documentation.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\/latest.html\">my latest studies<\/a> (new ones finished today!) will henceforth be housed <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\/latest.html\">here<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\">Compressionism<\/a> grew out of <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/works\/paper\/serial-faces.html\">serial faces<\/a>, featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress2.mit.edu\/e-journals\/Leonardo\/\">Leonardo<\/a> 38:3<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>left: tree, 750 x 2000 mm, Sept. 2005 Compressionism is an ironic title for a series of works that use simple technologies to &quot;capture and compress&quot; subjects, then &quot;edits and exhibits&quot; them to explore different ways of looking. In the near future, I&#8217;ll play with video-based and sonic Compressionist studies; for now, I&#8217;ve been performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,26,7,9,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-compressionism","category-me","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art","category-theory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-cm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":588,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/17\/compressionism-and-experiment02\/","url_meta":{"origin":766,"position":0},"title":"compressionism and experiment02","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of days ago, I posted the invite to experiment02, my second duo show - and third, large-scale collaboration - with marcus neustetter. 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