Liminal Dub

Abstract

Images from ‘Dub in Liminal Space’ produced in 2009–2010 towards MRes Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth.I embrace the ‘Dub Reggae’ music genre. It strips the language from songs, sometimes returning it in a fragmented form, ornamented with delays and echoes. It provides an analogy for temporal lobe seizures; I experience dub versions of events, with language removed and time distorted.Being a visual artist, I looked for ways to apply the dub rules to images. I reduced series of photos to non-representative clusters of tone and colour, and merged them with abstracted data.I find increasing aesthetic value in removing elements from compositions, and in transitory situations. Once again I see an analogy for seizures, which leave gaps in the timeline of consciousness and remove elements of cognition and perception. Images from ‘Dub in Liminal Space’ produced in 2009–2010 towards MRes Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth. I embrace the ‘Dub Reggae’ music genre. It strips the language from songs, sometimes returning it in a fragmented form, ornamented with delays and echoes. It provides an analogy for temporal lobe seizures; I experience dub versions of events, with language removed and time distorted. Being a visual artist, I looked for ways to apply the dub rules to images. I reduced series of photos to non-representative clusters of tone and colour, and merged them with abstracted data. I find increasing aesthetic value in removing elements from compositions, and in transitory situations. Once again I see an analogy for seizures, which leave gaps in the timeline of consciousness and remove elements of cognition and perception.