SooA Kim: Looking Outwards – 06

Takeshi Murata is an American media artist and one of his works, Monster Movie (2005), uses a digital file that has been datamoshed. In his work, he tends to use video and animation techniques to create this datamosh effect. I enjoy watching the randomness of images or pixels popping out from the result of datamoshing. I believe he was able to achieve this effect by manipulating different kinds of frames, which are I-frames, P-frames, and B-frames. He removes one of those types of frames in this process, where the video player generates the video without realizing that the actual image content has been changed. This results as datamoshing with abstract motion of pixels with other types of frames in the video to continue with the next frame pixels.