"You photograph something then the photograph is split up in to millions of tiny pieces and they go whizzing through the air, then down to your TV set when they are all put together in the right order."
Mike Teavee, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, 1971
Over the course of Strand's residency in Autumn 2017 at the CPIF gallery, she asked her husband to choose images from her archive and apply an agreed grid. He would then communicate the sequence of numbers relating to the tonal code of each photographic element on the grid. When received by Strand, she methodically painted the code on the matching large-scale grid she had drawn in her studio. Strand takes lead from Claude Shannon’s pioneering paper, The Mathematical Theory of communication (1948), as well as George H. Eckhardt publication Electronic Television (1936), which discusses the potential for transmitting a coded photograph from sender to receiver via telegraph to produce a fair representation of the original image. The Discrete Channel with Noise is set in our time when the misinterpretation, mismanagement and misrepresentation of information - whether deliberate or accidental - has an ever-increasing and overwhelming effect on our everyday life. These failures of communication can lead to minor confusion, fantastic revelation or global outrage, depending when and where they occur.
The Discrete Channel with Noise: Information Source #7 31x36 cm (left) The Discrete Channel with Noise: Algorithmic Painting; Destination #7 144x183cm (right)
The Discrete Channel with Noise: Algorithmic Paintings; Destination #1-10
Paint Brushes and paint pots 1-10.
Interview with The British Council Clare Strand 's first solo exhibition in France is featuring photography, painting, machinery and sound installation.
Wishing you a Summer of clear and successful communication.
