Leigh Brodie
(Austin, TX) www.leighbrodie.com

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Leigh Brodie, Pixels Enlarged and Replaced #4, Inkjet Print, 20 x 24 inches, courtesy of the artist



Leigh Brodie, Pixels Enlarged and Replaced #5, Inkjet Print, 20 x 24 inches, courtesy of the artist





Leigh Brodie, Pixels Enlarged and Replaced #1, Inkjet Print, 20 x 24 inches, courtesy of the artist



Leigh Brodie, Pixels Enlarged and Replaced #7, Inkjet Print, 20 x 24 inches, courtesy of the artist

Artist Statement

My work takes the form of digital images, videos and installations. With them, I examine both the creation and translation of digital information. I am fascinated by how the digital makes our infinite world finite and transforms lived experience into the discrete. I also experiment with how digital information is translated back to us and what algorithms or instructions are used to make sense of information.

This work, Pixels Enlarged and Replaced, examines systems used to understand and relay information, underlining the consequences of their structure. The sizes of the pixels in the portrait are enlarged depending on how positively subjects respond to questions I ask them, altering one criteria of pixel information. The pixels are numbered to ensure they are resized in a specific order. Because this numbering begins in the center of the image and spirals out clockwise pixels begin to overlap when their size varies too greatly. The loss from this overlap is irretrievable. It is a characteristic of the algorithm that this system is not reversible (i.e. the original image cannot be created from the final image) but it illustrates how information and its presentation are completely dependent on their definition and construction to be understood.

I approach the idea of digitality from both sides of the equation looking at how information is encoded and decoded. These explorations help me make sense of an analog world that is ever more represented as a ?nite entity.

- Leigh Brodie