
With her environment momentarily resolved, the Angel reflects.
She now sees the digital image as data in process,
shaped by stitched limitations, filters, bends and breaks,
imposed by the moment/um of a governing protocol,
forever deferring perfection.
Digital resolutions will never deliver a final, static image;
It is only a momentary myth
within the procedural gospel of progress. An algorithm deployed in a specific time and a place.
The Angel assumes her role as media archaeologist from the future. She begins collecting various types of limits embedded in the render pipeline. She hopes these lines will provide a way to start her collection of compromised, unsupported, unknown or forgotten image renders:
a scanline, a separator, a progress bar, a ruler, a mesh, an axis, a vector, a link, a loop,
...a generator, a discriminator...?
From these lines ,the Angel assembles a Binary Large Object or BLOb: an uncommitted form that doesn’t move upwards, but instead dissolves hierarchy into ambiguous dimension.
Best described as a fluid stack of shifting moiré patterns.
The BLOb becomes a living archive for all im/possible image pipelines.
Standing in front of the BLOb, the Angel considers how resolutions not only consolidate technology, but also dictate constraints on how she cannot - or choses not to - use them. They shape how she renders images, while foreclosing alternative imaging methods.
Her next mission is clear:
she will map every limit in the image-processing pipeline,
to compile an Atlas of Destitute of Vision, a collection of key observations for Resolution Studies,
documenting how every technology defines what remains forever unrendered and unseen.
Resolution studies classes and seminars
Resolution Studies is grounded in practical teaching and artistic research. It currently involves seven thematic “disputes,” each addressing a fundamental tension within the study of rendering, image culture, and media infrastructure:
CHAPTERS AND MAPS IN THE ATLAS FOR DESTITUTE VISION:
With illustrations from the BLOb
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0000 : HOROLOGY
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0001 : MATERIALITY
* Vernacular of File Formats
* Ecology of Compression Complexities (BY A BLOb)
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0010 : GENEALOGY
1. A GENEALOGY OF THE COLOUR TEST CARD
* Lexicon of Glitch Affect
2. A GENEALOGY OF MACROBLOCK / FROM ARTIFACT TO A/EFFECT.
* De/Calibration Army
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0011 : SCOPE
(OR HOW HABIT DELINEATES IM/POSSIBILITY AND IN/VISIBILITY)
* Spectrum of Lost and Un/Named colours
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0100 : SCALE (SCALING AS VIOLENCE)
* FF D8 De/Calibration Target
(A REPO FOR THE GENEALOGY OF DCT / MACROBLOCKING ARTIFACTS)
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0101 : CRISIS (THE ADDITIVE CRISIS OF THE IMAGE)
0. OBSOLESCENCE OF ANALOG IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES
1. TRANSITION FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
2. PLATFORMED/NETWORKED IMAGE
3. CRISIS OF THE SYNTHETIC/HYPER IMAGE
* BLOb of im/possible Image
RESOLUTION DISPUTE 0000 : ATLAS Each dispute opens a terrain of theoretical and material exploration, inviting research, pedagogy, and speculative practice.
>>> For a deeper theoretical framing, see the long-form essay:Refuse to let the syntaxes of (a) history direct our futures. [PDF]

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is a research project in the framework of my Arts at CERN COLLIDE Barcelona award.
curated by Monica Bello
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