6 Image Analysis
Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did. In fact, if artmaking did not tell you (the maker) so enormously much about yourself, then making art that matters to you would be impossible.
—DAVID BAYLES AND TED ORLAND
Our goal in processing our work is to transform the data captured by the camera into our desired visualized outcome. Analysis is the process of identifying gaps between the image as it appears at a particular point in time and the visualized image—the way we want it to appear after we process it; and deciding what step(s) to take to close those gaps. Once no gaps remain and the image appears on the screen as the visualized ...
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