Three Pieces
These pieces are a meditation on what Hito Steyerl calls “the poor image”: pieces of the vast online digital archive of audio-visual media, floating in space, forever looking for and finding new homes and contexts.
In Steyerl’s words:
The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed…”
Poor images show the rare, the obvious, and the unbelievable- that is, if we can still manage to decipher it.[1]
The music is mine. The images are deformations and collages made by me of archival media, from TV commercials to 8mm home movies.
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[1] Hito Styerl. “In Defense of the Poor Image.” e-flux Journal. Issue #10; November 2009.