Blake Marques Carrington

• Screening Launch: Monday, May 1

Inspiration comes from a 40-year debate active in theoretical physics called the Information Loss Paradox, where scientists argue over whether information can truly be lost if it falls into a black hole.

The work is part of a larger theme over the last several years called Speculative Forensics, which focuses on the discarding of information inherent to translation and transcoding, and the hidden manifold of data always out of our reach.

The work is created with a custom software system that allows the artist to draw and manipulate digital audio waveforms. For this version made especially for the 4-channel site at e4c, the imagery is scaled at four distinct resolutions. These four scales emphasize the spectrum from discrete information unit (starting at the screen furthest to the right), to the quasi-representational image (ending at the screen furthest to the left) that emerges from those basic units. The ever-shifting flow of images are not shot, made or captured; they coalesce and evolve within the invented system.

About the Artist

Blake Marques Carrington works within the spheres of the visual, sound and performing arts. As a sound artist he writes and performs original audiovisual compositions and is soon to release his third full-length album titled “A Weak Force That Binds”. Parallel to his work in the ambient/electronic music context, he has had solo visual art exhibitions at VisArts Rockville, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and Central Utah Art Center, featuring a range of work from inkjet painting to video installation using custom software systems, all in dialogue with sound in a more conceptual way.