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Impressions Numériques

Today's digital signatures, such as compression artefacts, are seen as faults. The race to new and better video codecs avoiding visually lossy content is raging through a commercial enterprise of standards. The development of an impressionist glitch art form is a reaction to the constant evolution of these codecs, aiming to draw attention towards obfuscated information of failure through the destruction of detail found in artefact beauty. Challenging these complex algorithms using their flaws is a way for these artists to free the pixels from their half-life; giving them sense as malleable entities.

The focus of the selection was set on the fleeting visuals produced by broken video files desperately trying to be displayed correctly. In some cases, movement becomes a crucial element and allows the blending of new colors alongside trails of shadowlike figures. In others, the audience is tricked into an anticipation of something familiar, which is then fragmented by unexpected motion.

Being ultimately dependent on system flaws, these artworks do not only exist in the glitch momentum, but are also active participants in [ today's fight against hard cut technologies] && net existentialist’s theory - that digital art cannot live on without digital error.

The future isn’t brighter, it is yet to be broken.

Dates

An impressionistic-style image with vibrant, datamoshed effects that distort the original content, resembling a painting with abstract forms and colors. The scene is suggestive of a garden with figures that blend into the lush, glitched environment.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
A datamoshed image that presents a chaotic blend of green colors and shapes, reminiscent of an abstract impressionist painting, where the original subject matter is obscured by the heavy video glitch effects.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
A heavily datamoshed image resembling an impressionist painting, featuring figures in period dress against an architectural backdrop, with the video glitch effects creating a mosaic of distorted colors and shapes.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
A datamoshed image with an array of distorted, painterly effects that abstractly portray a scene with indistinct figures and surroundings, evoking an atmosphere similar to an expressionist painting.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
A highly abstracted datamoshed image with a rich tapestry of colors and textures that blur together, reminiscent of a fragmented and pixelated digital impressionist painting.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
A datamoshed image with a figure that is abstracted into a blend of brushstroke-like textures and colors, giving the impression of a fragmented and pixelated portrait against a dark, indistinct background.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
An image exhibiting extensive datamoshing, portraying a figure in period attire in a fragmented and pixelated form, set against a background of chaotic digital patterns that mimic the strokes of a modernist painting.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
This image presents a heavily pixelated and abstracted scene reminiscent of an impressionist painting, with a multitude of colors and shapes blending together to obscure any definitive forms, creating a visually textured and layered appearance.
@ Datamoshed still from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette