Tara Youngborg

My artworks use photos and videos that I have taken from the places I have lived and experiences I have had, altering and glitching them through programs I write in the Processing programming language. I draw upon the process of JPEG compression, in which a JPEG image becomes recompressed each time it is re-saved as it tries to find places where it can combine colors to save file space. By pixelating my images, I am creating an analogy to the process through which the human brain overwrites a memory each time it has to recall that memory. As the time passes in the program, the images become pixelated, a direct visual reference to compression and glitch. The viewers, time, and my own attempt to recollect my memories then become compressed and made anew, a different image with similar elements.


www.tarayoungborg.com

tara.youngborg@gmail.com