Tate made some works from the Tate Britain collection available and invited artists working with glitch aesthetics—noise and code corrosion—to manipulate the paintings. These images were used for a night of projections at Tate Britain.
The works Tate made available for manipulation were the following (asterisks mark those I used):
- Marmaduke Cradock A Peacock and Other Birds in a Landscape, c.1700
- Peter Monamy, Ships in Distress in a Storm, c.1720–30
- Edward Francis Burney, Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music (‘Musicians of the Old School’), c.1820
- John Simpson, Head of a Man (?Ira Frederick Aldridge), exhibited 1827 *
- Walter Richard Sickert, Minnie Cunningham at the Old Bedford, 1892 *
They sent us some photographs. I liked the paradoxical result. It would be great to see similar initiatives in Brazilian collections.
Loud Tate. November 8, 2014. Photo: Yemisi Blake.