B.A. Collection: Screen

I questioned myself about the different representations of a picture, from reality to digital, from our memory to its digitization. I wanted to show the ambiguity of our "analog" experiment and the veracity of its backup.

My work was made of three different textile collections creating a journey inside the screen:

• “Abyss of Pixels”  : collection inspired by my childhood experiments with game consoles

• “Next stop: Kodaira” : collection inspired by my pilgrimage during a trip to Tokyo, its suburb and how this I experienced it digitally thanks to Internet.

• “Glitch : a new reality” : collection inspired by the transformation of my two collections thanks to "glitch", an electronic/digital failure.

 
 

Glitch: a new reality

 

Pictures and videos we are watching on our screens; from computer to smartphone; are called digital files, in opposition to raw/analog files. The term Digital takes root in the latin meaning "digits representation". 
A digital photography is opened using the appropriate app, making it visible through the screen. But, to obtain this visual, this app is decoding the file into countless digit codes, which gathered and assimilated by the app, creates a visual. But when a digital file is faulty, wrongly saved or that its digit codes are falsified, what is happening ? The computer still decrypts the file but gives a faulty and unpredictable visual.
This action and those images are called "Glitch".

Today, the glitch is used by artists such as Glitchr and Rosa Menkman to evoke, to criticize the limits and norms of the digital life.
I used the glitch as a way to deform my first two collections and see if I was able to find new possibilities through this transformation, a digital journey.

 
 

1/ Glitched Abyss

I glitched few of my first weaving collection about abysses. The initial colors and stripes has been transformed into small irregular blocks in a gray and purple shades.

Extract from a weaved collection.
Simple warp, stripes warp drawing, polyester & linen.

I also vectorized the new and infinite block patterns from glitched photographies. By using different colors and typon/templates, I got multiple and infinite silk-screen printings.

Extract from a silk-screen printing collection,
Indigo dyed textile.

 
 

2/ Glitched forests

I also glitched photographies found on Flickr and weaved into my second collection, combining my personal memory to the collective one. By transferring those corrupted images into textile, I obtained faulty and partial results. Using embroidery, especially cross-stitch technique, I tried to recover those glitched images, stitch by stitch, pixel by pixel.

Embroidered collection,
Cross-stitch, flossed cotton.