Jason Salavon
The Top 25 Grossing Films of All Time, 2 x 2
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Programming languages provide the greatest amount of control and flexibility (and are the most difficult to master).
Jason Salavon’s works have in common the performance of computer operations on material appropriated from popular culture to produce an aesthetic that references the history of art and evolutionary biology simultaneously. One major category of Salavon’s
Works such as The Top 25 Grossing Films of All Time, 2 x 2, (2001)retain narrative sequencing while reducing each frame of the appropriated source to an average color, resulting in what appear to be minimalist grids.