This article makes me think a lot about the difference between the analogue and digital electronic signal. Both of them are very different, and I feel like digital signals can lose the magic of an analogue wave. Digital signals are always sampled, approximations of what is being seen at that moment. In photography, pixels try to approximate the color in one little piece of an image, but it still cannot capture the minute detail of the surface of film. This makes me think that time based works should be divided into multiple categories; film, analogue video, digital video. Programs like jitter and processing, can never do what Vasulka's machines could, they can only try to mimic them.
I guess this post is going to be a highly technical one. I read a few weeks ago that the human eye can see roughly 550 mega pixels of data if you took an instantaneous screenshot of our visual field. It makes me think of how far away any technology is from replacing the magic of vision. It makes me wonder what the future of the time based image will be.
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