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Images fall apart data decay glitches algorithmic transcendence The moon raises over mountaintops melts with the woods A path dissolves with the view Colors rendered liquid Data holes vanish in the distance Memory processing nothing lasts forever A hike through a natural reservoir recorded saved consolidated A landscape interpretation by means of MPEG algorithms In 47 alternating fixed camera shots and pans display a landscape from the hikers point of view Where the path leads to remains unclear 47 belongs to a videowork series researching the relationship between landscape representation perception and the unconscious The technics applied to the footage are a mix between some hacking of the MPEGinformation and faulty encoding settings During this process crucial data is removed from the MPEGstream and fed back to the computer to make it work forcing software to reinterpret the visual information