By ‘datamoshing’ and transcoding this video work Duncan has broken it down and created the glitch that becomes the intriguing image above.ĭuncan Rossi began his BA(Hons) Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art in September 2015. The accompanying audio includes echoes of political rallies, snippets of city life, and fragments of audio recorded on train journeys Duncan hints to Glasgow’s mixed events of 2014. Obscure geometric shapes flicker and dance over the screen, gradually forming the block letters HELP. ‘HELP’ is a projection based installation work developed by Duncan to reflect the atmosphere of Glasgow in 2014. The original file, which Duncan manipulated to create the cover image was his video work titled ‘HELP’. Taking something and squeezing out all its material characteristics in an attempt to capture essence, understanding, truth if you will.” Take your human view, break it down, what do you get? I use this theme through much of my work. Beneath everything you see is a set of basic colours. “Glitches show technology with the veil pulled off, the sometimes beautiful upsetting imperfection of systems going wrong – an integral part of life… I find the idea of diffraction of great importance. Download Pirate Break your videos and find the pixel wonderland ) The only way to true Datamosh inside of After Effects.

Edit content 10x faster by automatically removing silences from your video. Easily convert a file to a different file format. Simply drag the start and end to trim and cut a video. Duncan exploits the glitches that can be achieved by playing with technology and deliberately seeks the seemingly broken results. Resize video online to fit square, widescreen, or portrait frames in just a few clicks. To generate this image he ‘datamoshed’ one of his own video works. The colourful and fragmented image was created using the technique of ‘datamoshing’ where Duncan intentionally corrupted a video file. His work, shown above, was featured as the cover image of our Summer School Course Brochure in 2015. Duncan Rossi: Datamosh of ‘HELP’ video work featured as cover image for Continuing Education Summer School Brochure 2015ĭuncan Rossi studied on the Portfolio Preparation Course 2014/2015.

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