Lossless #5
2008 | 00:03:00 | United States | English | B&W | Stereo | 4:3
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Film or Videomaking, Film Theory, Future/Technology, Hollywood, Image Processing, Media Analysis
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In Lossless #5, a water-ballet crafted by the famed Busby Berkley is compressed into an organic mitosis, within which we detect the spirit of a "buggy" Brakhage ghosting about the integrated circuit.
"In Baron and Goodwin's Lossless series, the "materiality" of the digital becomes the source-code for experimental execution. The artists' renditions of appropriated films are certainly not "lossless" (i.e. a copy of the original in which nothing is lost), but rather gainful: through various techniques of digital disruption - compression, file-sharing, the removal of essential digital information - the artists reveal the gain of a "new" media, full of material forms ripe for aesthetic sleuthing." --Braxton Soderman
Exhibitions + Festivals
8th Courtisane Festival in Gent, Moving Bits section, April 23-26 2009
Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2009
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ohio, 2009
Dallas Videofest, 2009
PDX Film Festival, 2009
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