Lossy

LOW-RES ART IN A HIGH DEFINITION WORLD

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Rosa Menkman, Xilitla (2014)
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Rosa Menkman’s errors

Dive into the futuristic, digital world of Rosa Menkman, an artist who uses glitches not as destructive errors or mistakes, but as new possibilities.
Caravaggio, Ragazzo morso da un ramarro (1595-96)
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The immortality of an image

While paintings, frescoes and films have a constant need of restoration, digital pictures appear as immortal images of the unstoppable technological development. Is that true?
Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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The Blair Witch Project

"I'm scared to close my eyes, I'm scared to open them". Discover more about The Blair Witch Project and the use of low resolution as an expressive medium in horror cinema.
James Ensor, Christ's Entry Into Brussels (detail), 1888
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A high-definition lie

We live in a world that promotes high-definition. But is our world in HD? No. The post-modern reality is witnessing the survival of low-resolution images.