Lossless series, 2008

The Lossless series (2008–09), by Rebecca Baron and Douglas Goodwin, has screened internationally at the BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Ambulante Film Festival in Mexico City, and the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna; Lossless #2 received the Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film at the 2009 Ann Arbor Film Festival.

In Baron and Goodwin's Lossless series the "materiality" of the digital becomes the source-code for experimental execution. The artists' renditions of appropriated films are certainly not "lossless" (i.e. a copy of the original in which nothing is lost), but rather gainful: through various techniques of digital disruption–compression, file-sharing, the removal of essential digital information–the artists reveal the gain of a "new" media, full of material forms ripe for aesthetic sleuthing.

Braxton Soderman