Buffering (2014)

CCA – Center for Contemporary art, Tel Aviv

This series, which was initially exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, is based on a formal distortion, created during faulty internet video transmission, which is a characteristic of the first years of infiltration of Internet as a popular media, coexisting with televised media. The nature of transmission of materials in video media was characterized by the technological inability to transfer a form in its entirety through the transmission sequence.

The forms arising from this failure are characterized by pixilation / missing visual information and mixing of timelines, which are expressed by a hacked, blurry and meddled image. The series, which consists of 4 units (frames), is devoted to one Israeli newscast, which gathered several events into four static images. President Katzav's trial / the pope's visit to Israel / a lethal traffic accident/ the Prime Minister's visit in the National Library. The images were photographed from the computer screen, painted using a technique that emphasizes the materiality and the painterly gesture, scanned and printed in the original size of the canvases. The illusion produced by this work is that of confronting an indistinct substance. The illusion is generated by the tension between the digital combination of images, the strong material sensation (the extreme detailing provided by scanning of the painting), and the feeling that the viewer is confronting an abstract painting while observing a high quality print of a figurative subject matter, which underwent an impaired digitization process.