In 2017, the artist acquired several older compact cameras from Canon's early-2000s PowerShot series. These cameras are "distinguished" by the fact that they were manufactured with a factory defect — their sensors often failed over time. He used this glitch to explore the malfunction's potential to transform visual imagery, which also served as the basis for my later projects WorldCrash.img (master's thesis), CHECK SIGNAL CABLE and Step by Step.
mentorship: Peter Rauch (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, SI)
The cameras tested come from the same series of older Canon devices with a manufacturing defect that causes a glitch on the sensor. The content of the collage, used as a test scene, combined with the glitch, comments on a contemporary society that has gone off the rails.
Zine: (Dis)function
Zin: (Dis)funkcija
digital collage (test scene)
digitalni kolaž (testna scena)
digital collage – modified through the process of code bending
digitalni kolaž - modificiran s procesom code bendinga
photographs of the test scene taken with a camera that has a manufacturing defect on the sensor
fotografije testne scene s kamero, ki ima prozivodno napako na senzorju
photograph of the test scene taken with a camera that has a manufacturing defect on the sensor
fotografija testne scene s kamero, ki ima prozivodno napako na senzorju
photograph of the test scene taken with a camera that has a manufacturing defect on the sensor
fotografija testne scene s kamero, ki ima prozivodno napako na senzorju
photograph of the test scene taken with a camera that has a manufacturing defect on the sensor
fotografija testne scene s kamero, ki ima prozivodno napako na senzorju
photograph of the test scene taken with a camera that has a manufacturing defect on the sensor
fotografija testne scene s kamero, ki ima prozivodno napako na senzorju
photograph of the test scene taken with a camera that has a manufacturing defect on the sensor
fotografija testne scene s kamero, ki ima prozivodno napako na senzorju
mentorship: Olja Triaška Stefanović, Juraj Blaško (AFAD/VŠVU, Bratislava, SK)
This series consists of six experimental flipbooks composed of photographs taken with old compact Canon cameras affected by factory sensor defects. These malfunctions produce unpredictable glitches such as chromatic distortions and digital noise, turning each photo into a visual error. When the glitch photographs are sequenced in a flipbook and viewed in motion, they form a brief "animated glitch."
The original photographic content — which is then re-photographed — is sourced from typical tourist imagery of Bratislava found online: the UFO bridge, streets, churches, the brutalist radio station, etc. These appropriated images are reinterpreted through the mechanical faults of the camera. The project was created during the artist's master's exchange at AFAD (Academy of Fine Arts and Design) in Bratislava, Slovakia.
mentorship: Peter Rauch (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, SI)
The photographs depict images that the viewer may interpret as abstract landscapes, although they are not: the actual subject of the photographs is the interior of the artist's home. The images were taken with old Canon cameras that have a factory defect on their sensors. The glitch caused by this malfunction transforms the subject beyond recognition, turning it into an abstract form that becomes the object of reinterpretation.
photograph shot on a camera with a faulty sensor
fotografija, posneta s kamero z okvaro na senzorju
photograph shot on a camera with a faulty sensor
fotografija, posneta s kamero z okvaro na senzorju
photograph shot on a camera with a faulty sensor
fotografija, posneta s kamero z okvaro na senzorju
photograph shot on a camera with a faulty sensor
fotografija, posneta s kamero z okvaro na senzorju
photograph shot on a camera with a faulty sensor
fotografija, posneta s kamero z okvaro na senzorju
photograph shot on a camera with a faulty sensor
fotografija, posneta s kamero z okvaro na senzorju
