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
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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.
