DV ghost

Web artist and experimental visual researcher exploring controlled data corruption, signal decay, and the relationship between digital and analog media since 2008/2009. My practice began through an early fascination with internet culture, compression artifacts, unstable video files, and the unexpected patterns hidden within technological failure.

Working primarily with video art and GIF based experimentation, I explore glitch aesthetics and the transformation of damaged media into emotional visual experiences. Through a combination of digital and analog processes, I investigate how images deteriorate, mutate, and reconstruct themselves over time.

My work often involves datamoshing, signal interference, compression manipulation, layered rescanning, and intentional corruption techniques that blur the boundary between accident and control. I see glitches not simply as errors, but as traces of memory, decay, instability, and transformation; a visual language shaped by imperfection, disruption, and the material behavior of digital systems.

Influenced by early internet environments, underground digital art movements, and degraded archival imagery, I approach the moving image as something alive and unstable, capable of mutation, collapse, and reconstruction. My work explores themes of impermanence, corrupted memory, technological nostalgia, fragmented identity, and the emotional weight carried by damaged or deteriorating media.

Over the years, my practice has evolved into a broader investigation of interference itself, both as a visual process and a conceptual framework. Working across digital and analog methods, I combine data corruption, compression artifacts, degraded media, and looping image structures to create unstable visual environments that exist between preservation and disappearance.

In 2024, this investigation expanded into TESTING, an ongoing series exploring destruction, impact, corruption, and the tension between humans and machines. Using crash test imagery, AI generated footage, and data corruption techniques, the series examines mechanical trauma, system failure, simulated bodies, and the aesthetics of technological stress. Through processes of degradation and reconstruction, moments of collision are transformed into fragmented visual experiences that exist between documentation and simulation, memory and reconstruction, stability and collapse.

Find me on GIF Museum, X, Instagram and GIPHY.

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