Caryatid: Wink AE

Sarah Zucker’s works are emblematic of the enduring interest in analog electronic technologies within the digital art community. She produces her raw materials using VHS videotapes, analog editing equipment, and vintage CRTs; she then uses digital cameras and editing techniques to create the final artworks, which she shares as GIFs and digital videos. The results are prismatic images in which bands of color actively wiggle, exaggerating the visual artefacts of the meeting of digital cameras and the refresh rate of the scanlines on old electron screens. Like a spiritual medium, Zucker uses her outmoded technologies to induce altered states of consciousness and summon those forces that are ost...View all