Friday, October 21, 2016

James Hoff:

James Hoff's work is very visually stunning and his process is crazy weird. He's a digital/visual and music artist who creates these abstract color images (he describes it like painting with a printer) that he then proceeds to "glitch" He takes government written malware and spying cyberwar tools and he integrates them into his images that he created, in order to glitch them. He says it adds an element of unpredictability to otherwise carefully crafted images. It brings randomness into the mix. 

He drops his paintings that he creates into a hex editor (a thing that turns images into text) then he takes chunks of the government created malware software and adds it to the text. He then reconstructs the text as an image file. 

The result...



  

Crazy glitched images. Very painterly in some aspects, chromatic streaks, blotches, static etc. 
He prints these images on aluminum sheets and then mounts them to wood panels.



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