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Creator: John Karborn
Title of Work: Evidence of Time Travel
Year of Creation: 2012 – 2014
Link to Project Work: http://www.evidenceoftimetravel.com/
Link to Artist Bio: http://www.karborn.com/
Because of the nature of my work (performance, video, sound), the work of John Karborn — specifically his Evidence of Time Travel series done in collaboration with musicians John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino — has contributed directly to my working methods. Karborn’s series was created by feeding still and moving images into modification hardware such as wobbulators and analogue video machines which he documents via DSLR captures off the output screen. Doing this to multiple images and videos coherently to produce a full series of 9 works (i.e. the AV, performance-based project Evidence of Time Travel) while collaborating indirectly with the sounds and audio created by musicians took Karborn roughly two years. Custom hardware is often created to produce desired modifications which he then further modifies by disrupting the image code in software such as Audacity.
In the realm of new media art, Karborn’s Evidence of Time Travel series points towards the direction of utilizing audio to tamper, modify, and fragment the data of visual messages. Although code is not his primary modifier, Karborn has contributed to explorations in the production of graphic images whose data has been intentionally corrupted and/or disrupted.