I think there's something special about the kinds of work that can emerge from distorting, destroying, and confusing digital media.
There are many traditional works where people use their medium to realistically record a moment in time or a figment of their imagination. While I love that kind of work the most, there's definitely a unique and not entirely mutually exclusive set of people who are using mediums in a different way.
From the reading I'm thinking of page 22s paragraph on Mary Lucier's Dawn Burn and the recreation by Jochen Gerz in his Prometheus piece.
The idea of pushing a medium to its absolute limits to find out what happens is exciting to me, and honestly I believe that it is people who endeavor to create those kinds of works who really provide a blueprint to the expansion and refining of a medium for future inventors and thinkers.
Using the Dawn Burn example, we get an interesting work of art from the failure of a technology, but it also provides us with a goal for the video industry to perhaps one day create a lens capable of handling the sun in its entirety.
Works like this take a stroke of ingenuity, something I always admire.
-Thomas
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