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Datamosh experiments and offcuts by The Bone Collector.

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Some inspiration for near-in-the-future experiments.

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Some more really amazing images from the most recent glitch out. Not sure I will actually be using this version of the export, the transitions aren't quite smooth enough. Sometimes it's worth it just to see what the computer and I can do as a team.

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This video is due tomorrow, and I'm a bit excited about what's happening. I've worked out sound, but will have a biiiiiig ol' night getting it finished off. Excited to see what happens though!!

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Second round of moshing tonight resulted in the glitch I was expecting originally – it's an awesome example of the visual language I am building/nurturing/expressing. This video features exclusively non-white multi-racial Australians, and I'm referencing the negotiated space that we, as multi-racial people, exist in all the time. The discourse I am contributing to is about negotiating this space so that it rejects assimilation and instead celebrates differences in authentic and pluralistic ways. This part of the video features the movement of my face and the image of my friend Andrew's. The results are very creepy and unpredictable, but really well reference the "smashing together" of cultural production that I am always thinking about. What happens in between the mainstream ideas of "culture" or "ethnicity"? What is it to exist in this space? How do we negotiate new terms for this space? What happens when two modes of cultural expression are forced together (especially through colonialism)? Expressing these ideas in this way helps me rationalise them in my own life logistically, somehow, as a kind of therapy I suppose. I was constantly trying to unify my identity, trying to justify its authenticity, albeit unnecessarily. Instead I should be creating my own traditions, praciticing my own hybridised languages, celebrating mine (and many others) awkward existence in this space between dominant and minority cultures. The future is multiracial after all.

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Accidentally glitched the fuck out of the video I am working on, wayyyyy before I was supposed to. I just encoded it way too many times (I changed the file type like, 6 times...) and knew something was going to happen like this, ha ha. I'm actually kind of surprised that iMovie can handle the video footage while it's like this, especially considering it's doing a pretty good job at trying to read it!

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Another happy accident from the langlitch project that I'll be releasing soon. To recap: langlitch is a glitch typeface I created that makes a comment about language patterns that happen between cultures. You can read a bit more about it here.

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Here are some creepy headshot samples from the aforementioned video project. Definitely going to be pretty cool and weird. I think I'll make these my new "design" portfolio headshots.

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Setting up for tomorrow’s datamosh shoot about diversity in Australia feat. exclusively multiracial Aussies ✌️✌️

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This one's going to be so great guys! I already have a few stills that are both creepy and awesome – the shoot is tomorrow so I daresay there will be more vvvvvvery soon.

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For anyone who might be a Redditor, as I'm a bit of a n00b, and just thought I'd be able to access a wider datamosh community on there!

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"j" Experiments #1

Some happy little accidents from LanGLiTCH*! This used to be the letter j, but I broke it using the phrase from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks:

"Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality–finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle."

On the theory and process:

This project explores the languages of Colonised Others, especially languages such as Creole and Anglo-Indian. It references mismatched language patterns and the fractures that happen when displaced or colonised peoples begin assuming the language and culture of the Coloniser. I chose to make it based on my experiences as an Anglo-Indian woman in Australia, having watched the quintessential Anglo-Indian-isms fade with each ageing generation. I am very fascinated in language as a cultural artefact, and so chose to make a typeface as an artefact that responds to different breaks or pressures as a kind of visual metaphor for Creole languages and the fact that language is always in flux, always being subjected to appropriations.

On the outcomes:

Even though I have some degree of control over the outcomes – especially with regards to what is predictable based on file formats and colours etc – oftentimes weird stuff happens and I just can't explain it. These are great examples of things I just can't explain, especially because they are not entirely consistent with the other letter forms. Quite a few of them did this weird gradient cube thing, but many others showed other similar outcomes with seemingly little correlation to each other. Every image is exported with the same settings too, so it's all very curious and beautiful.

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"h" Experiments #2

Some happy little accidents from LanGLiTCH*! This used to be the letter h, but I broke it using the phrase from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks:

"Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality–finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle."

On the theory and process:

This project explores the languages of Colonised Others, especially languages such as Creole and Anglo-Indian. It references mismatched language patterns and the fractures that happen when displaced or colonised peoples begin assuming the language and culture of the Coloniser. I chose to make it based on my experiences as an Anglo-Indian woman in Australia, having watched the quintessential Anglo-Indian-isms fade with each ageing generation. I am very fascinated in language as a cultural artefact, and so chose to make a typeface as an artefact that responds to different breaks or pressures as a kind of visual metaphor for Creole languages and the fact that language is always in flux, always being subjected to appropriations.

On the outcomes:

This one really reminds me of 8-bit video games and sci-fi shooters.

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Some broken letterforms I've been working on for an upcoming project on Creole languages. These ones ended up being swept under the rug pretty quickly because they were too hard to read. Still pretty cool though. The working name is "LangLiTch" but I think it's a bit cliché maybe...

The letterforms here that I've datamoshed are screenshots of text from The History of British India by James Mill. This text is pretty significant to the history of India, because it's sort of the foundation text of colonialism – it divides Indian history into roughly 3 parts, the first being Ancient history, the second being Islamic history and the last being the part where Europe saves India from itself. (Friedlander & McComas).

From left to right, then top to bottom: B, A, R, Q.

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This is the Bounce track from #iggymosh, without the second layer of audio (the second layer helps it correspond with the video better). The file was broken by inserting the same text from the video into the sound file via Photoshop.

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Screengrabs from #iggymosh. Click for high resolution image.

From top to bottom:

1. Trendy 2. White People 3. Drag 4. Assimilate 5. Otherness 6. Of 7. Privilege 8. Women

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#iggymosh has been featured on Typolitic! Jason did a great write up and there is a short comment from Douglas Rushkoff at the end. So happy!

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A screenshot from my early datamosh experiments.

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Some cool and weird outtakes from #iggymosh, a datamosh project I completed early this year (2014). It was a critique of cultural appropriation and addresses ideas about cultures not being costumes.