machinework

It seems the paths of knitting and glitch cross once again. The following image and extract is from Ant Scott's website www.beflix.com, and a series of images called machinework:

[This is] from part of an exhibition at Dean Clough gallery. The concept was "workers operating machines - machines operating workers".

The photographs were scanned from a variety of second-hand books found in [his] local charity shop, retailing at about 30 pence each. They were glitched using dreadfully naive algorithms of the sort [he] used to play with as a 9-year-old on my ZX81 computer. They are simply multiply-nested FOR loops, which index the pixels in complicated, yet linear, ways.