Datamosh
データモッシュ / 2005– / Technique / Digital Image Techniques
Deliberately breaking a video's keyframes so the previous image is dragged and melted by the next motion — turning the compression algorithm's inner structure into an aesthetic.
Melting, flowing frames / Macroblock debris / Motion vectors dragging pixels / Compression exposed
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Kanye West, Welcome to Heartbreak / Chairlift, Evident Utensil / staged degradation in the high-resolution era