Jeremy Blake and Takeshi Murata are both artists that use computers to create digital works. The computers being a metamedium, a medium in which contains “already existing and non-yet-invented media.” They create works that have a very unique aesthetic by utilizing and exploiting specific digital techniques.
Jeremy Blake’s work incites a surreal nostalgia. Looking at the work reminds me of a sequence of memories, each stitched together in a narrative. His style was created when culture underwent a continuity turn. This was a time when “both the temporal visual form of graphic cinema and the spatial form of architecture started to explore the new universe of continuous change and transformation”. Architects started to create works in which spaces weren’t necessarily divided and filmmakers understood film as a continuously changing visual form. Winchester Redux has no cuts or flash transitions between scenes. Instead, images are slowly fading in and out of view. This creates a very dream-like aesthetic.
Takeshi Murata uses a technique that is now called datamoshing. This technique takes advantage of how videos are compressed and exploits this to manipulate and break the video in a way that a computer might if something went wrong. Pink Dot is a work with a variable form, a form in which all constants are instead variable. The variables are being tweaked and changed as a function of time. This creates a unique aesthetic that can be appreciated and observed indefinitely.
Manovich, Lev. “Understanding Hybrid Media.” in: Lev Manovich Official Website. 2007.
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