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Dance of the Water Bytes

November 2023-February 2024 

soundscape

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1920 x 1080 px, 02:00

 

From one byte to another the machine must muster, for data is water.

 

A drop of water is like a pixel that shapes the canvas that is Florida. Like water, data is vital to the sustained growth of living beings. The presence of mundane Florida waters as noticed by Florida-born Goswami in 2023 are surreally layered and blended through this audiovisual-scape to discern how the presence of water at different times has a transformative effect on the shape of Florida. The footage of water seen through the video frame is metaphorized as data that moves through a machine as a digitally abstracted nod to how water shapes Florida. Video footage of a residential lake in Ocala, a giant puddle rippled by wind at the University of Florida campus, to the waves of 30A are blended and layered together through three different movements that are aurally and visually perceived, for like water, data has its cycle that it flows through.

 

The peculiar beauty of the video demonstrates the data [as water] cycle as it is played through different forms of presentation. The way the "water bytes" are presented through online platforms versus when they are seen on a TV or a large screen is apparent. For instance, different video parts are more compressed than the others on YouTube, Vimeo, and Labocine. Meanwhile, the video is not compressed when it is played through a USB on a flatscreen. Through different forms of presentation for this video, which essentially are different pipelines for bytes of data to move through, the way the data/bytes/information of the video and sound are read and heard serve as a representation of how the states of the data [as water] cycle can fluctuate. As a result, data is water.

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Exhibitions​

Shaped by Water Juried Art Exhibition, Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention, April 18, 2024 to May 5, 2024

Big Art Show, Scotland, UK

Honorable Mention, Chroma Art Film Festival 2024

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Publications

"Bodies of Water." Labocine, May 2024.

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