Dither Studies are compressed images of no content; their patterns are those of the foundational photographic algorithm. Work in this series include a web app, hand-renders (acylic on panel), interactive installations , and other renditions.
Work from Dither Studies belongs to the Buffalo AKG Museum, the Spalter Digital Art Collection, and the Thoma Foundation. They are a selection of the Rhizome ArtBase at the New Museum. They were reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail and featured on Art F City, Triangulation Blog and on Fast Company's Co.Design Blog. They were recently on view at Museum of the Moving Image and Higher Pictures Generation.
The Dither Studies web app is a dither generator with controls for color, pixel shape, and kernel. It includes classic dithering kernels and some developed by the artist, using machine learning (genetic algorithms), for hexagonal and triangular pixels. It animates a progression of color settings and also generates PNGs; these can be used together to download frames for a gif.
The gensis of the Dither Studies project. A collaboration with Photoshop. I give the program an impossible task: to draw a solid color or gradient with a palette of incompatible colors, thus exposing the dithering algorithm's complex, seemingly irrational patterns.
Dither Studies printed across flip flops were exhibited at Higher Pictures, Mana Contemporary, and Esther Klein Gallery.
Dither Studies for Anthony Antonellis's credit card curation project.
