May
19
Beautiful synthesis of idea and medium a great expression of the power of abstraction.
You are watching a home video my father shot on his camera in the mid-1980s of my sisters and me in the backyard.
Using C and Max/MSP, I wrote a program that replaces each pixel of the video with the memory address where that pixel is stored inside the computer. The address, written in hexadecimal, is colored according to the value stored there.
Because computers store video color as a mix of red, green, and blue, you can see here when the video is rotated the primary color planes that make up all videos.
This piece is about computer memory and human memory.
by Adam Rokhsar
