Owi Mahn and Laura Baginski featured data compression in their video Pastell Kompressor back in 2003, so it’s been around since at least then. Davis calls it “compression aesthetics”).Īnimator David O’Reilly used the effect back in 2005 in his video for Venetian Snares’ “Szamar Madar”, while artist Sven König used the technique in his aPpRoPiRaTe! project around the same time.
Some claim that it’s a spanking-new innovation, others maintain that it’s an effect that’s been around for awhile and someone’s just come along and plonked the title “datamoshing” on it (Paul B. Its origins, usage, even its name have become somewhat controversial. Davis, who use it in their work as a visual aesthetic. It has been explored by artists and filmmakers like Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad, Kris Moyes, and Paul B.
