Glitchometry Stripes
Inkjet print mounted on lightbox
2014
Each image begins as a series of vertical black and white stripes. They are sonified -- imported into an audio editor. Sound effects are added to individual color channels, transforming the image. Because the tool is used in an unconventional way, there is no immediate way to monitor the effect. The image manipulator has a sense of what each effect does, but no precise control over the result. These sound effects -- flanger, dynamic delay -- curve the initial lines, creating images reminiscent of Op Art artists like Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely. It is a wrestling with the machine, -- as Curt Cloninger describes databending, “like painting with a very blunt brush that has a mind of its own.”
