Laurence Cliffe

Creative Technology, Intermedia Arts, Research Through Design

Digital Decompositions

Posted on: April 7, 2016

A series of digital decompositions, or ‘glitch’ works. These captured still images of decomposed digital video imagery are generated automatically by a computer using malfunctioning or obsolete codecs, or digital media compression and decompression software scripts.

I’m a freelance web developer, graphic designer, digital artist, music producer and an EPSRC funded PhD researcher at The University of Nottingham. I currently work across a variety of sectors for companies, agencies, individuals and organisations throughout the UK. My research explores past and present futures, working with sound, open source hardware and software, radio transmissions, live data feeds and custom digital processing techniques, it seeks to exploit both emerging and near-obsolete technologies in order to create visual and sonic artworks that challenge popular aesthetics. Influenced by fields including cybernetics, artificial intelligence and science fiction, the resultant works are often realised by exploiting technology’s perceived failings in order to expose otherwise hidden content, or to generate initially indeterminate output that can be used as a foundation for further exploration.