Part of Six Minutes Re:search (Lab → Output)
Virtual / augmented environment, Newart.city
d_a_t_a_m_o_s_h operates within the unstable territory between analogue material and digital processing.
Physical objects and sound are captured through freely available 3D scanning applications, pre-digital synthesisers and low-quality video recording devices. These materials are then recombined within an augmented environment where splicing, degradation and corruption are not concealed but elevated.
The work functions as a feedback loop. Each artist’s independent practice feeds into the collaboration, generating unpredictable configurations. The methodology aligns with collage - assembling fragments of pre-existing material into new forms and textures. Disturbance becomes generative rather than destructive.
The collaboration began when Paul R Jones and Guy Mayman encountered an archive of 35mm slides, audio cassettes and A4 booklets marked for disposal at the art school where they were working. The materials were deemed obsolete, displaced by contemporary digital infrastructure.
Rather than accepting obsolescence, the project reanimates these artefacts. Analogue residue becomes source material for psychedelic improvisation and performative reconstruction. The work excavates the recent past while interrogating the perceived inevitability of technological progress.
d_a_t_a_m_o_s_h documents an ongoing inquiry into hybrid media, glitch aesthetics and the spectral persistence of analogue culture within digital space.
D_A_T_A_M_O_S_H
Collaboration between Paul R Jones and Guy Mayman