Projection of a single digital image file displayed with varying numbers of screen pixels.
Interference
Q, 2012.
Interference was a total installation with digital images on new-build drywalls.
Two areas of the exhibition space were cut off by new-build walls and were not accessible during the exhibition. However the areas were visible through the windows from the outside. One areas had a messy desktop with sketches and notes from planning the exhibition and the other area had tools and leftover materials from the installation. From dusk till dawn the rooms were lit by spotlights with timers.
The first room had 3 projections on new-build drywalls. Each projection showed a single digital image file displayed with a decreasing number of pixels. Moiré-like interference occurred between the lines of the digital image and the lines of the pixels making the image of the projections move around in rhythmic patterns.
In the next room were 4 small framed images hanging low in front of an old bench. The images were drawings made on a computer. A number of distortion filters and heavy image compression had been added to the images that were inspired by old historical photographies in poor resolution found on the early internet.
Behind the wall of the 4 images a small dusty storage space with materials from past projects was installed.
In a narrow passage 4 screens were built into the wall. The screens showed images from a feedback loop. First a flash photo was shot of the black screen of my personal computer. The photo was then displayed on the screen and a new flash photo was shot and so on. The first image showed only grease, dirt and reflections but later also pixels and exaggerated colours were enhanced by the loop.
The final room of the exhibition had two walls with 6 photo prints each. The images on the two walls mirroed the one hanging opposite and showed two different editings of the same image file - one very dark og and one light and saturated.
When reaching the back room of the space there were two texts. First, a description of the digital images of the exhibition and how they were made. Secondly, a small introduction to the exhibition and an english translation of the text in the russian typewriter: Artwork only to be imagined.
The exhibition was built over a week with great help from a number of friends and fellow art students.