DCT SYPHONING PERFORMATIVE LECTURE - Rosa Menkman

In DCT SYPHONING Menkman navigates the world of the encrypted messages and JPEG compression. In this performative lecture, she explores what is hidden on the surface of an image, which is only legible to the ones in the know.

BIOGRAPHY/CV
Rosa Menkman is an artist and theorist who focuses on visual noise artifacts, resulting from accidents in both analogue and digital media (such as glitch, encoding and feedback artifacts). Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Menkman emphasizes their positive consequences: these artifacts facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization via resolutions: the creation of solutions or protocols, and their black-boxed, unseen, forgotten or obfuscated compromises and alternative possibilities. In 2011 Menkman wrote the Glitch Moment/um, a book on the exploitation and popularization of glitch artifacts (published by the Institute of Network Cultures), co-facilitated the GLI.TC/H festivals in both Chicago and Amsterdam and curated the Aesthetics symposium of Transmediale 2012. Since 2012 Menkman has been curating exhibitions that intend to illuminate the different ecologies of glitch (filtering failure, glitch genealogies,glitch moment/ums). In 2015 Menkman started the institutions for Resolution Disputes [iRD], during her solo show at Transfer Gallery New York. The iRD are institutions dedicated to researching the interests of anti-utopic, lost and unseen or simply "too good to be implemented" resolutions. Menkman is also pursuing a PhD at Goldsmiths, London. Since 2007 she has created performances and static work, such as the “Vernacular of File Formats" and my “Acousmatic Videoscapes”, in which she connects both sound and video artifacts conceptually, technically and narratively. Other main art works of mine are the Collapse of PAL andXilitla. Right now she is am interested in considering alternative ways for performative lecturing. By combining both my practical as well as academic background, she intends to merge practice into a grand theory artifacts (a study of glitch ecologies) as a case study of her resolution studies.

http://rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/

This will be followed by https://www.kit.ntnu.no/en/content/mfa-masterclass-rosa-menkman-vernacular-file-formats
A VERNACULAR OF FILE FORMATS MASTER CLASS
Every file format consists of a language or dialect in which it is encoded. Something I would like to think about as a grammar or idiom. When we break away from this grammar, by for instance glitching or databending, a new expression or visual slang can appear. Often these "new slangs" are directly dismissed as 'garbage' or 'noise artifacts’ but the results of these noise artifacts can in fact be exciting, unexpected or even new forms of expression.
In this workshop I will introduce the different structures or dialects of the more commonly used file formats. I will show how these can be used or exploited in a generative manner, to create 'new images'. The file format language itself is thus a tool for creation.

[image - institutions for Resolution Disputes [iRD]}