Screenshots from surface-space
surface-space focuses on the visual representations of the abstraction of photographs by algorithm. This process is made possible by open-source software which emphasizes transparency and allows users to not only view the programming code but also use it and change it as they see fit. In this instance, the software application is employed to select images generated throughout the research project, at random. Each random selection is given the same treatment by an algorithm that is designed to zoom and move over the surface of the image; determining what and when it is viewed. At the same time the computer-generated magnification screen of overlapping lenses obscures the image. In this way, surface-space is a conscious articulation of the digital processes photography engages with and the supports (screen) that accompanies digital visualization. The process that generates this artifact is half-planned and half self-organized - the images are determined; and yet how they appear, when they appear, and in what sequence are not possible to predict. Randomness is a parameter of the program and process. It is a post-photographic, post-optical process which has no point of view but rather a visual context determined by the interactions between photographic images and numerical code.
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