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| DATE: | May 2005 |
| SIZE: | 10''x8'' Approx |
| MATERIALS: | Flat-panel photograms on hand-coated Arches |
These are from part of an exhibition at Dean Clough gallery. The concept was "workers operating machines - machines operating workers".
Photographic sources include: Japanese electron microscope workers, glovebox operators in a nuclear facility, a woman fixing a mechanical yarn spinner, telephone operators, Russian soldiers on parade (the "machine" in this instance is the State), and assembly-line workers in a room that's very brightly-lit by rows of fluorescent striplights.
The photographs were scanned from a variety of second-hand books found in my local charity shop, retailing at about 30 pence each. They were glitched using dreadfully naive algorithms of the sort I used to play with as a 9-year-old on my ZX81 computer. They are simply multiply-nested FOR loops, which index the pixels in complicated, yet linear, ways.