Stoffel Debuysere
… Baron and Goodwin’s Lossless project consists of a series of works that looks at the dematerialization of film into bits, exposing the residual effects of the process that makes file sharing possible. They used several methods to alter these works, either interrupting the data streaming by removing basic information holding together the digital format or comparing 35 mm to DVD and examining the difference between each frame. The project considers the impact of the digital age on filmmaking and film watching, the materiality and demateriality of film as an artistic medium, as well as the social aspects of how the online community functions and the audience for such obscure films.
Artistic Innovation at Its Finest: A glance at this years Wavelengths Programme
Neil Karassik
… exploring nostalgic sensibilities, Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwins Lossless #2 is a mesmerizing assemblage of compressed digital images of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s 1943 masterpiece Meshes of the Afternoon. Baron and Goodwin play heavily with Teiji Ito’s 1959 soundtrack, making the films lyrical ambience feel more astonishing than ever before.
Mathew Kumar
Lossless #2 (Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin; pictured above)–Supposedly just the result of a broken BitTorrent download, this is an exciting visual mess as artifacts transform scenes from Meshes of the Afternoon into a disorientating but clever new form. Someone will steal this concept for a music video soon.
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