Lossless

Details

Artist: Olia Lialina
Exhibition: Zurich Art Weekend
Exhibition: Olia Lialina – LOSSLESS
Exhibition: Asymmetrical Response
Exhibition: Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966)
Gallery: Roehrs & Boetsch
Gallery: The Current Museum
Medium: Animated GIFs displayed on LED panels
Saleprice: Unknown
Editions: Unique

Description

Images from http://www.roehrsboetsch.com/artists/detail/olia-lialina/work/lossless/

Artist quote from press release:

“Lossless – from lossless compression – is the most poetic word ever used to describe a technical process. So beautiful and ephemeral that I tend to forget what it really means. Every time I see a subfolder named “Lossless” in one of my folders I am paralyzed for a moment; as if I am about to open a treasure box, to see a wonder, a remedy humankind has been searching for since the beginning of time: the elimination of loss, the undoing of the helpless, the sleepless, the inconsolable. Of course I know it is just the name for a standard computing algorithm, that the remedy works for 0s and 1s only, and that inside that folder are files waiting to be uncompressed and displayed without the loss of a single byte. But it is still a wonder."