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Glitchscapes

Vanessa Bertagnole’s recent work is an exploration in painting with pixels and exploring the liminal spaces between converging digital worlds. Glitch Art or databending, involves manually tweaking and recoding an image's raw data to create obscure and unpredictable visual effects. Still images are reconfigured using various digital media - video, phones, computers and projectors and then materialized in new photographic form. In a time where we rely on digital technology to deliver accuracy and consistency, Vanessa enjoys experimenting with the artistic potential found in its failure. By disrupting the digital code and constant stream of digital imagery pervading our everyday lives, this image allows for quiet reflection and contemplation on the convergence of media now commonplace in modern society.

With her work, Vanessa hopes to blur the boundaries of traditional digital image – making and challenge the role media plays in shaping our perceptions of reality.

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Vanessa Bertagnole, b.1983, United States, is an award-winning photographer and artist based in Brisbane. Her work is mainly concerned with the elusiveness of memory and mediated forms of communication. In abstracting digital forms, she wishes to blur the boundaries of photography and challenge the role memory and media play in shaping our identities and perceptions of reality. In a time where we rely on digital technology to deliver is accuracy and consistency, Vanessa enjoys experimenting with the artistic potential found in its failure. Her documentary work focuses on cross-cultural issues and the ways in which cultural and social identities are expressed in everyday life. Vanessa regularly exhibits throughout Australia as well as overseas and has been a finalist in many national art prizes.