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One image that you would like to “destroy”
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A laptop computer
If you do not have one, PARADISE AIR can lend you a device. Availability is limited.
Application Download: https://linktr.ee/img.ws
In this workshop, video/performance artist and translator Lillian Canright introduces “image degradation,” a roughly construed set of techniques wherein an image is not merely altered with “filters” or “effects,” but its data actually corrupted or destroyed. Crucially, these changes to the images’ appearance are not really “effects” at all, but “processes” that “translate” the images on a fundamental level.
Participants will be asked to bring their own laptop and an image that they would like to “destroy.” Lillian will demonstrate a few different image degradation approaches and introduce the appropriate software, then guide participants in altering their own images, leaving each with a small collection of “translations” of the image that they brought.
Does a translation merely “betray” its original? Or does it also open up possibilities for different forms of life? Eschewing the simplistic balance between an “original” that must be perfectly preserved and a “copy” that is always inferior to it, what possibilities might lie in slippages and distortions? This workshop offers the opportunity to consider these and other issues of images and translation in the broadest sense.
