Data Leaks (2025)
Data Leaks is a low-fidelity audio-visual work, in the spirit of small file media. (I am borrowing the idea of small file media from the Small File Media Festival)
The work was made in the last days of my contract as a transcriber for AI projects, when I already knew that my encounter with this impressive piece of electronic literature had reached its conclusion. The audio is based on the recording of a small private performance, without spectators, in which I have tried to remember, in a given time frame, as many fragments of the transcribed audio recordings as I could, as closely as I could. Subsequently, I have split the resulting audio file into four parts of approximately equal lengths and superimposed them, with two of the parts being reversed, creating a barely intelligible texture of voices. The next step involved compressing the audio file, and converting it a few times between different formats and different audio codecs, until the words became entirely unintelligible. So, the audio is based on a flagrant trespassing of the walls of the secure lab, I am divulging information that should remain secret (even if most of what I have managed to remember is entirely innocuous), except that this information is distorted to the point of noise (through a series of simple, amateurish steps). The video is based on images of my blood seen under a microscope, distorted by glitches resulting from file compression. The idea was to reduce the entire audio-video work, in the spirit promoted by the Small File Media Festival, to a dimension of less than 1 MB per minute.