Taking something and squeezing out all its material characteristics in an attempt to capture essence, understanding, truth if you will.” Take your human view, break it down, what do you get? I use this theme through much of my work. Beneath everything you see is a set of basic colours. “Glitches show technology with the veil pulled off, the sometimes beautiful upsetting imperfection of systems going wrong – an integral part of life… I find the idea of diffraction of great importance. Duncan exploits the glitches that can be achieved by playing with technology and deliberately seeks the seemingly broken results.
To generate this image he ‘datamoshed’ one of his own video works.
The colourful and fragmented image was created using the technique of ‘datamoshing’ where Duncan intentionally corrupted a video file. His work, shown above, was featured as the cover image of our Summer School Course Brochure in 2015. Duncan Rossi: Datamosh of ‘HELP’ video work featured as cover image for Continuing Education Summer School Brochure 2015ĭuncan Rossi studied on the Portfolio Preparation Course 2014/2015.
