The book, weighing about 30 kg, and composed of over 4,000 pages of binary code, is the negative of my photograph, namely its origin information: This sequence of 0 and 1 allows me to visualize the enormous amount of information produced each time I take a photograph. I cannot understand the information in this book, but for a computer the information in the book is the photo.
Through a series of algorithms, the computer transforms the binary code of a photograph into colored dots, in order to allow me to view the image. This transformation often involves a compression of the digital photography, a loss of information in order to reduce the size of the file of the photograph.
Project Credits:
- Valerio Vincenzo / MAG19 Festival
Biography:
Valerio Vincenzo lives and works between Paris and Milan. His Borderline, Frontiers of Peace project, ongoing since 2007, won the 2013 Prix Louise Weiss. The project has been exposed numerous times, in particular on the railings of the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in 2015 at the Street Art Museum in St. Petersburg in 2016, other 30 cities in Europe. In 2019, 4 open air exhibits will take place in France and Germany.
