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  The jpeg image compression technology is one of the most archaic, but at the same time most contemporary artifacts from the realm of image processing. The algorithm still - since its release in 1992 - absolutely dominates the field of image compression, while its basis - the DCT algorithm - is also used in other compression technologies. Besides the DCT algorithm, the JPEG technology also gave light to a color test card called “Lenna”. It’s this image and its history that I focus on in the essay “ Shirley, Lenna, Jennifer and the Angel of History ” - in which Lenna is just one caucasian lady in the history of color test cards - others such as Shirley and Jennifer - have similar stories. Lenna, a naked model originally featured as Playboy centerfold in 1972 now serves as a test image to tune and test all kinds of image technologies - often without permission or accreditation. This history of multiplication, objectification, the loss of face and name and finally the becoming of a v...

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After years of being on a never ending tour, I finally found a place to take a rest and come home to.  Now I am finding the time to pull all my work and research of the last years together and develop it in the way I intended. Unfortunately, the format of a blog feels not right for this. This is why I am leaving Sunshine in My Throat for now and moving on to Beyond Resolution .  

 ▋▅█▉▝▊ ||Hey Berlin &&  Transmediale   family!   I am really pleased to invite you to the performance of DCT:SYPHONING during  – transmediale 2017 ever elusive – ! The DCTs will start Syphoning straight after  Morehshin  and  Daniel 's German  # ADDITIVISM  Cookbook launch, which will take place on Saturday, February 4th, 6pm and features the recipe to read and write in DCT! Besides the performance I will part take in two smaller events: The release of the  Transmediale  Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions, which will have launch event on Friday the 3th of February and straight after it the Machine Research publication. This little collection of works released during Transmediale is rather special; its not just 3 printed papers and one artwork. All of them work in connection and together they form some of the little pieces of this little universe I have been working on for a while now; an ecolo...

The Dada to data publication features a short version of the following essay.  A stranger like Dada / Weird like quaint collage  ¯\_( ͡ ఠ ʘᴥ ⊙ಥ‶ ʔ) ﾉ /̵͇̿̿/̿ ̿ ̿ ☞ “Your work is so Dada, its just weird…” Even though the sentence was uttered playfully and with no foul intentions, it hit me. It sounded dismissive; in my ears, my friend just admitted disinterest. Calling something “weird” suggests withdrawal. The adjective forecloses a sense of urgency and classifies the work as a shallow event: the work is funny and quirky, slightly odd and soon becomes background noise, ’nuff said. I tried to ignore the one word review, but I will never forget when it was said, or where we were standing. I wish I had responded: “I think we already know too much to make art that is weird .” But I unfortunately, I kept quiet. In his book Noise, Water, Meat (1999) , Douglas Kahn writes: “We already know too much for noise to exist.” A good 15 years after Kahns writing, we have entered a time do...