Bleed (experiments 1, 2, 3)

February 2022

A series of experiments on the materiality of video signal using a CRT monitor, a sliced RCA cable, a piece of paper, water, and chunk of snow.

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As the droplet seeps into the paper, the pixels blend together on the screen, fading out the image like ink bleeding on a page. About two and a half minutes in, the image is no longer recognizable but abstract scanning patterns slide up and down at varying speeds. Sometimes it moves really quickly like it's the momentum of the electrons managing to make it across the barely conducting damp paper. Gradually the patterns become fainter like the video itself is evaporating. When the paper is fully dried up, the screen is finally completely still.