(Top) Detail, Encrypt_Decrypt, 2015,
CNC-routed acrylic, digital still projection, 5 x 35 x 1.5 inches
3D model, Umbra v2, 2016
Still projection image, Umbra v2, 2016, dimensions variable

Along what bundle of points in space do experiences of digital and physicalness, as being separate from one another, collapse? And what might this look like? In these works, image processing instructions perform on data artifacts—new information, created paradoxically, at the onset of information which has been lost converting the sounds of computer hardware into visual representations—leaving an imprint of their work on the field of surrounding pixels. A copy of that digital imprint is made: further destroying, but also introducing, new information. This (re)production is encoded into a 3D model, and is then carved computationally into acrylic material: its virtual beingness, if you want, transferred into the physical dimension.

Installation views, “Joshua Liebowitz | Channel Corruptions”
August 2016, CAFA International Gallery, Beijing, China

Photos: Naiyi Wang