Lossless challenges the representational nature of photography by re-ordering the digital photograph, using Processing and a custom QuickSort algorithm. The majority of photographs are now stored as pixels, where each pixel is a representation of specific values of color, brightness, saturation, etc.
Our works are re-ordered and removed from their previous context while still being an accurate representation of every single pixel in the original image. This process allows the image to function as a unique object and set of information rather than an object devoid of its own context.
In this process, the image now functions conceptually as a collection of visualized data rather than a mechanical/digital reproduction of reality. The action of re-organizing the photograph makes tangible the traditionally transparent functioning of the medium.
You may submit an image for sorting to the following email address:
lossless.processing@gmail.com
When submitting an image, you agree that the image may be used for exhibition or sale.
Jordan Tate + Adam Tindale
jordantate.com + adamtindale.com
TPTP in 6-Bits, interactive installation, custom computer hardware and software, 2010, Paris, France
The installation consists of the entire TPTP art space. As viewers interact within the space, their images are put into a live loop that compares reality with its digital reproduction.
One large LCD panel displays two video feeds. The first feed shows a live representation of the viewers with their colors shifted to a color palette consisting of 64 different colors. This process aims to expose the representational limits of digital photography- it depicts a plausible image while highly simplifying reality, where all specificity and subtlety is lost. The second video feed displays a black and white representation of the amount of shifting (or error) that occurred when the colors were converted.
TPTP in 6-Bits is a collaborative piece that merges Lossless Processing (Adam Tindale + Jordan Tate) and Error (Ryan Boatright). Together, the artists investigate the technical and conceptual concerns of digital image representation by measuring the accuracy of color reproduction.
Photograph of two gentlemen getting into an automobile; Sorted in JPG domain (alphabetically).
Photo of a Sunset with the full text of The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction copied into the hex code; Pixels sorted by Hue.
Tron, Teaser Trailer #1; Sorted video and Audio.
Photograph of my wife and I in a snow storm, red channel only; Pixels sorted by Green.
Magic Kingdom; from color rendition charts for future times based on the past; Pixels sorted by Saturation.
Collaboration with Ryan Boatright.
Decor; from color rendition charts for future times based on the past; Pixels sorted by Saturation.
Collaboration with Ryan Boatright.
Vignetted photograph of zebras drinking from a pool, right side up; Pixels sorted by Saturation.
Cross-section of the colors of a domestic space measured at eye level; 5x recursive sort by Blue; Pixels sorted by Hue.
Collaboration with Ryan Boatright.
