Washer

Video Art, 2015

The image is always a representation conditioned by a medium. When moving images began to be reproduced en masse through projection, they were made up of light. Today the digital images that we see on our screens, in addition to light, are numbers and mathematical processes that make up pixel matrices.

In this work both sound and image are used to highlight this numerical nature of the digital image.

It is achieved through the use of a mobile phone app that, through an algorithm, analyzes the pixels collected by the device’s camera and in real time generates sound from this data.

There are many involved in the production process: the artist and all the programmers and engineers who have developed the device, the application and the camera. The construction of the device conditions production and vice versa.

As the objective of the application is to produce sound with the data, the figurative image is no longer important, because the device does not process the object in front of it, it is only concerned with the data that in the end becomes machine language.

Image and sound have been reduced to their minimum expression to reflect this numerical and autonomous nature separated from objects, which generates its own aesthetic. The video is monochrome, reflecting zeros and ones. On the other hand, the audio has been compressed to the lowest bit rate in mp3 format. With the montage, a sound composition is achieved where sound and image are an amalgam of symbiotic data.