GIF experiments

ORIGINAL PROCESS

1. Random word chosen
2. First choice predictive text used until loop found
3. Each word searched in google images
4. Top image result used to create a sequence of images
5. Text and images combined with glitching processes in gif creator

DEVELOPMENT - ASK ME ANYTHING

Online residency for Up North Arts

I created further gifs by attempting to answer visitor submitted questions, beginning myself and then allowing my mobile to take over. I wanted visitors to feel this was an interactive, automatically generated response, but ultimately flawed and confused, as if the phone was attempting to answer using various tools (ie google search, predictive text) at its disposal.

What makes you happy?

 What's your ideal question?

 What are you?

INSPIRATION

This series was heavily influenced by Lorna Mills- in particular the glitching, heavily processed style.
She takes partial films and images from various sources including the dark web and combining them in glitching gif collages.

Her work takes some inspiration from her own experiences with memory retention, something which greatly interests me in relation to how technology documents and memorizes information in ways often incompatible with human memory or logic. Rather than suggest human creativity, however, I used much more generic formal rules to create the gifs, copying the images as their original size into a paint application and saving each a separate frame. I also made sure the text was the focus of each gif, however difficult to read, so they were seen as genuine flawed attempts to answer each question.