With his work Realigning My Thoughts On Jasper Johns, JK Keller has devised a “glitch” version of The Simpsons episode “Mom and Pop Art” (Season 10, Episode 19), in which the seminal pop-artist Jasper Johns appears as himself. Recalling Johns’ ongoing series of ecaustic collages begun in the 1950s, Keller handles The Simpsons as mass-produced pop-cultural object and intentionally distorts image and sound of the episode through the misappropriation of standardised software tools. The distortion effect results from digitally saving and converting into vectors every single frame of The Simpsons episode. The files are then processed further in Adobe Illustrator using the “Alignment and Distribution” tool, before finally being reassembled into a continuous video.

Image: JK Keller