Experiments with compression artefacts.(video: Rosa Menkman, sound/music: Extraboy, Rosa Menkman and Skype, 2009)

Experiments with compression artefacts. (video: Rosa Menkman, sound/music: Extraboy, Rosa Menkman and Skype, 2009) Two version of To Smell and Taste Black Matter showing different stages of ‘destroying’ the source footage through compression. The original footage is taken from a lofi webcam screenrecording, in which Extraboy is performing an unfinished song. The footage is then exported multiple times, to different compressions (such as least quality/animated/256 colors mov to least quality/256 colors/uncompressed avi, etc), resulting in artifacts such as black / dropped pixels and bleeding pixels (‘datamoshing'), noise and weird forms of interlacing.