resuscitated algorithms, 2013

The photographic readymades resulted from the reformatting and retrieving of files in a digital camera, where the process of resuscitation left a body of noise on the presumed seamlessness of data. While data functions by being the underlying invisible form supported politically and economically by the Silicon Valley narrative and cybernetic legacy, executed through the operations of algorithms (indicative of what Heidegger calls the ‘opacity of technology'), the series seeks to emphasize the presence of the medium, insisting on a refusal of machinic representation and quantification. The medium of digitality has been foregrounded as glitch monochromes and noise streaks, and the resuscitated data reveals itself as the constituent unit of contemporary image-making.