CORRUPT / NATURE

By Eva L Matos, 2014

A deep dive into datamoshing as a medium for automated artistic expression. Datamoshing, or deliberate glitching, is the act of breaking down video or audio files by erasing or rearranging parts of their code. The result is a set of never-repeating projections which are then screen-recorded as the software attempts to pull something together after being forced to interpret the “broken” files. Every time the software reads the file, the resulting image or video is unique: It will only occur once, which indicates that the neural path that is taken by the software is circumstantial and occurs in a somewhat organic manner.

Below are two videos and an image, originally recorded with a DSLR camera in different parts of the Dominican Republic: A reflection on a calm river, a plot of Caribbean rainforest, waves crashing on a beach at sunset.