by Daniel Temkin
20. February 2011 19:32
Jorge put together a book that remixes some of my databent work, combined with casual snapshots from Facebook. He cut up prints of my images and affixed them to transparent sheets. The cut-away sections create interesting negative spaces and the transparencies allow for a layering effect, where the pages each add to collective images.
His take on my work seems to focus on their base in code and the connection between this and other code systems. He's combined the images with other symbologies, including Buddhism, and a list of more universal symbols on the cover. It adds an additional layer to my images, which have had a lifespan as photos and then as databent images -- now as part of collage-based images. The cut-away sections add an even glitchier effect to some of the glitch images. Although the book uses my images, in a sense it feels like Jorge's -- it's interesting how the images as raw material can take on a really different feel in the hands of another artist.
Here are some images from the book: