“Be silent always when you doubt your sense;
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence:
Some positive, persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you, with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critic on the last.”
Fascinated by the ephemeral in the digital realm, these “screenshots” are captured glimpses of interrupted video streaming. An error, so seldom expected from a machine. Due that streaming depends on many variables (user’s broadband, CPU, the server’s demand protocol), it is a difficult thing to provoke in a system or recreate digitally.
All these reasons make these moments of failure so precious, fleeting and chaotically colorful.
Art Melt 2011
Louisiana State Museum. Baton Rouge, LA