Absolute Filth is a collection of video sketches in which clean digital images are dirtied up through a series of processing stages. Each begins with an improvisation from La Habra, Sarah GHP’s livecode framework. This is then passed through framebuffers, data moshers, and analog video processors until it is stuttering and full of holes or other surprises. Relying on feedback in particular, the works seeks to reveal the textures of machine images by having the machines work on themselves; at the same time, the slightly overwhelming output aims to make the viewer’s experience of the failures of electronics joyful and visceral.
