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Compression Study #4 (Barney)


Davis’s process (called “Data Moshing” by some and also seen in some recent pop music videos, although Davis did it before they did) adds some much-needed ambiguity to the Cremaster series’ rather literal, theatrical surrealism. Data moshing is all about strange, temporal shifts and it’s creepy, for example, to watch a cat-creature emerge suddenly out of a cloud of frozen Barney-pixels in the Davis version...