Soon every facet of human life will be digitized. My work imagines the possible remnants of our existing digital culture. While archaeologists excavate the earth to find physical evidence of long lost civilizations, my work shows the possibilities of what future scientists would discover in our ever expanding digital cloud.
Through the use of glitch techniques I generate digital artifacts within images found in mass media such as film, television and the Internet. The prevalence of data compression today makes this loss of information inherent in our everyday images. We want unsurpassed quality but with the least expenditure of resources. The mere transfer of data causes the contemporary image to be in a constant state of decay. In our pursuit to produce and consume an endless stream of visuals, we face complications such as finite data space and visual incongruity. In the meantime, a new kind of imagery emerges.
Quiballo was born in the city of Manila in the Philippines. Social and political unrest in the Philippines would compel his family to leave the country, eventually immigrating to the United States. Quiballo received a BFA in Painting and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Arizona and holds a MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally including The Lab, San Francisco, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Labor Neunzehn, Berlin and Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
