Dina Yanni

VHS to digital. Fast forward and slowed down. A synthesis of the digital and the analog glitch. Joyride is part two of an ongoing Elvis video-cycle.

Elvis dreams of an alternative reality in which previously strict gender norms are mocked and his queer desires are eventually fulfilled—a détournement of the white playboy stereotype in the Elvis movies.

The Dark, Debra is an experimental fiction, a remake, a supercut, and a music video, all in one. It traces the story of Hollywood actress Debra Paget, who, immersed in sadness and anxiety, will finally have to face her own demons.

Sounds of a Factory: WAV to PNG translates factory recordings sampled from Youtube into visual noise patterns using scripting and databending techniques. Sound is segmented into micro-temporal units and algorithmically reinterpreted as grayscale pixel values. Rather than representing industrial labor, the work reenacts its operational logic: repetition, synchronization and normalization. The pulsating grain and the looping structure situate the viewer inside a rhythmic system in which perception itself becomes a site of power.

VHS to digital. Fast forward and slowed down. A synthesis of the digital and the analog glitch. Joyride is part two of an ongoing Elvis video-cycle.

Elvis dreams of an alternative reality in which previously strict gender norms are mocked and his queer desires are eventually fulfilled—a détournement of the white playboy stereotype in the Elvis movies.

The Dark, Debra is an experimental fiction, a remake, a supercut, and a music video, all in one. It traces the story of Hollywood actress Debra Paget, who, immersed in sadness and anxiety, will finally have to face her own demons.

Sounds of a Factory: WAV to PNG translates factory recordings sampled from Youtube into visual noise patterns using scripting and databending techniques. Sound is segmented into micro-temporal units and algorithmically reinterpreted as grayscale pixel values. Rather than representing industrial labor, the work reenacts its operational logic: repetition, synchronization and normalization. The pulsating grain and the looping structure situate the viewer inside a rhythmic system in which perception itself becomes a site of power.