ORSON HEIDRICH

Multispec - Excerpt

Somewhere inbetween pure data and an aesthetic interpretation of an accidental internet by-product. AiR is a mixed media body of work comprised of UV-pigment photographic works on aluminium plates, Giclee photographic prints set in epoxy resin.

This body of work emerged from an anomaly found on the Internet. Monochromatic information fields (generally in the form of 2-15kb sized thumbnails) are continually generated through misinterpreted, interpolated PDFs that are uploaded to Google Images. These thumbnails float within Google Images as an affix to these uploaded PDFs where they exist until they are periodically removed by Google once detected.

Capturing and analysing these thumbnails in their short Internet lifespan has been the catalyst for these five different photographic and sculptural works. Choosing select material from this boundless catalogue of uploaded information and translating them into heavy physical works highlights this transformative space between the uploader and browser. Allowing these images to live outside their usual digital world, in occupying the physical gallery space, further analyses the intersections between the source, the platform, and the monitor - in this case, the translated image into a permanent metal form.

This current body of work is an examination of how art can be created through the translation and interpretation of information and data. The works explore the relationship between the uploader, the browser, the platform and the monitor. In doing so, the nature of the way we consume information, and misinformation simultaneously, reveals itself as fluid and dynamic. Showing how no one idea or bit of information is static or singular, but diverse and open to interpretation, augmentation and transformation.