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01/17/2017

John Bumstead

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Collage of screenshots from a MacBook Pro with a malfunctioning NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor, Animated Gif. Based on Magazine Cover: 391, New York, N.3, 1 March 1917.

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“The image was cut into 10 equal segments which were fed individually into a 2008 MacBook Pro 17” laptop with a defective graphics processor.  The laptop was allowed to affect each segment, during which approximately 20 screenshots of each were taken.  The screenshots were then reassembled into 10 complete images, taking care to keep all segments in proper location.

Defective GPUs produce “randomly predictable” output, but by assembling collages of many different screenshots I hoped to produce a distinctly different aesthetic than would be created by allowing the GPU to affect the whole image at once”. John Bumstead

 

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10/18/2016

John Bumstead

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Photograph of cracked screens and digital collage. Based on: László Moholy-Nagy, Mord auf den Schienen, 1925

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“I decided to forgo the literal depiction of a threat in favor of a looming  presence. While the broken screens appear inherent to the laptops, the symmetry between them suggests a window into another world.

John Bumstead owns a laptop repair business and his work generally utilizes a combination of broken screens and the output of defective graphics processors”. John Bumstead

 

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