Every technology has its own accidents. Rosa Menkman is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences.
By combining both her practical (art school) as well as an academic background (Ma New Media and RMa Media Studies), she merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory artifacts (a glitch studies), in which she strives for new forms of conceptual synesthesia.
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An abandoned, dilapidated warehouse with a camera and projector inside. The projector plays what the camera records in a live loop, and people are encouraged to visit the installation. On the first day, visitors simply see themselves in real time in this warehouse, but on the second day, visitors catch glipses, memories of the happenings of the first day as they watch themselves. On the third day, memories of both the first and second day will randomly interrupt the live projections and so on until the final day which is simply an array of second-long clips of the recordings over the life-span of the installation. This will be only memories, but without context, the sort of memory one cannot remember why they remember. Introduced into the loop could be period footage, images, recordings from when the abandoned site was occupied. Memories of its users, its history…
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