Mantissa was a self observing and self generating video creation script, This version of Mantissa,
Performance , uses a basic shell script to record and glitch the desktop via two webcams pointing at the screen , creating a feedback loop but also allows for interaction via other windows that are called up via terminal shell creating an ever changing kaleidoscope of images and collisions , in a human and computer based interaction using the desktop as a performance tool, user choosing what to display and fighting against or working with what the shell script is creating. Sound is generated via skipping loops and hex editing in real time or pre-recorded and played when appropriate.

Crash-Stop

Crash-Stop – I gave up traditional media after downloading images from a cheap digital and becoming fascinated with how they had become inadvertently glitched. My work is based on forcing software, hardware and codecs to function in unintended ways, through hex editing, sonification, misinterpretation, circuit-bending and the exploitation of hardware flaws found in older computers when mismatched with obsolete operating systems. As well as my own video, I use a variety of found sources including VHS, out of copyright silent movies, government information films, ad-breaks from satellite television and footage of modern politicians – I treat the internet as an environment to work within, comment upon and as source material. I use and endorse open source software and publish my work under creative commons as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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