Evan Meaney, a moving image artist associated with the development within/around new media known as glitch, has been exploring the metaphorical and conceptual possibilities of work being made with the process and aesthetics of data failure/hacking. One of the movements or chapters of his serial exploration of these ideas entitled "the ceibas cycle" has a lot of overlap with this weeks essay by Andre Bazin. In highlighting photography's psychological residue of ontological identification invested in images by ancient societies, Bazin proposes a way of thinking about how different image making technologies preserve or embalm a moment (or person) beyond the duration of their passing. Meaney, in his series of glitched video portraits entitled "To Hold a Future Body So Close to One's Own", brings this thinking about resistance to mortality into the digital age, drawing attention to its failures.
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