The digital photographic process is characterized by constant translation. A camera shutter opens for a brief moment. Light bounces off objects, into the camera's lens, and becomes translated into strings of data by an electronic sensor. Undergoing another translation, the data reappears as an image. The camera can be thought of as a lens based image making device. However, the process of reality translated into data, and then into image can be expanded to non-lens based image making processes. Through the translation of sound into visual languages, such as the spectrogram and spectral frequency display, moments in time are rendered without a camera. Like sound, the digital image can exist in a form unlike its own. Through the translation of image into sound, digital images can become auditory experiences. Beneath the visual, beneath the material, there lies more. Within this work, I seek to bring these possibilities forward and redefine the 'digital image'.

Sound Pieces

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Senior's take the floor at the CSULB student art galleries