Crash.jpeg

It is the year 2021, and according to Silicon Valley, the resolution of the future should be High Definition. Instead, a meteorite has crashed to Earth and mysteriously lowered the resolution of not only images but also objects. The blur is unformed, unreadable, defective, but also authentic, romantic, aesthetic, ecological and political. This speculative scenario by Jonas Hejduk emerges through images and objects created by misusing online image databases, and modelling and rendering software. It explores how our tools align our perceptions with dominant ideological paradigms, questioning the cultural mythologies that shape our expectations of technology. Crash.jpeg asks if we can understand more by rendering less?