Breaking Bad :::

the bitTorrent edition, video: 2013

Breaking Bad: the bitTorrent Edition
This video is made from the final episode of Breaking Bad incompletely downloaded from the internet via bittorrent.

The video has been linearly edited, no digital effects were used and all effects are in the corrupted file. The final episode of Breaking Bad broke bittorrent records when it was released with over 500,000 people sharing the file within 12 hours of its release. The video captures this episode of the popular TV show in the act of being shared by these users on bittorrent.

The video simultaneously acts as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing as well as being an aesthetically beautiful and unique by-product of the bittorrent process, the file codec and the size of the bittorrent swarm as the pieces of the original file are rearranged and reconfigured into a new transitory in-between state. The video is the final part of the Bittorrent Trilogy which includes Mad Men: the bittorrent edition and Game of Thrones: the bittorrent edition, a series exploring file sharing as social and aesthetic practice.

The video is part of the BitTorrent Trilogy.

 

 

 

 

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