DCT SYPHONING: the 1000000th interval. A show within a show at the Europäisches Künstlerhaus Schafhof in Freising.
| Nick Briz and I just opened our show "Glitch Art" (I argued for a more magical name, but there was no discussion about this one) at the Europäisches Künstlerhaus Schafhof in Freising . The exhibition features 4 works by Nick and 1 new work by me: DCT SYPHONING: the 1000000th interval. In fact - DCT SYPHONING consists of 7 pieces on which I have worked a long long time - so I believe it is well worth seeing. An early sketch static image version can be found here . DCT SYPHONING was inspired by Flatland and tells the story of a father (DCT Senior) who introduces his son (DCT Junior) to different levels of compression; they move from dither, to lines, to macroblocks (the realm in which they normally resonate) and into the ‘future’ realms of wavelets and vectors. The story illustrates how the young son reacts to old compressions technologies, but also the newer, more complex ones which ‘scare' him because they are not legible to him. Every ...