Benjamin Gaulon (FR/IE)
Corrupt™
http://www.recyclism.com/corruptimator.php
video, digital prints
This single-channel video is the collection of uploaded images on corrupt.recyclism.com since 2005. The video of 1:11:45 minutes includes 107,175 corrupted images uploaded by thousands of different people from 2005 to 2011. Each image uploaded and corrupted at corrupt.recyclism.com is unique – an individual story. However, once those 107,175 corrupted images are combined what emerges is a story, in a way, of the entire internet. This video was made with the Corruptimator™ by Brian Solon.
Corruptimator™ is a bunch of Bash shell scripts loosely cobbled together in an attempt to simplify and automate the process of assembling a movie from five years’ worth of images generated by CORRUPT™.
bio:
Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher and has a broad experience of acting as art consultant, public and conference speaker, graphic designer, art college lecturer. Benjamin Gaulon is also organiser / Curator for Data (Dublin Art and Technology Association).
Issues like e-waste, obsolescence and disposable society have been the focus of his practice and theoretical research. Since 2005 he has been leading workshops and giving lectures in Europe about e-waste and hardware Hacking / Recycling. Workshops participants explore the potential of obsolete technologies in a creative way and find new strategies for e-waste recycling.
His research seek to establish an inter-disciplinary practice and collaborations by creating bridges between art, science and activism, and by doing so, shifting the boundaries between art, engineering and sustainable strategies.
