Takeshi Murata Untitled ( Silver) (2006)

A 2006 review of Murata s work Untitled (Silver) stated: A main part of Murata s technique involves digitally compressing the footage so that the movement of a series of frames is reduced to a single twitching image that records only the net difference in movement from one frame to the next. Ironically, this hightech wizardry recalls oldfashioned animation and movingpicture precedents such as flipbooks, zoetropes and Eadweard Muybridge s motion studies. The video s visual effects also evoke the way Impressionist painters broke down images into brushwork and blurriness, which similarly gave way to abstraction. For his part, Murata likens the liquid look of his digital distortions to the physical deterioration of old film stock.