DV Ghost, WEATHER CHANNEL

Fakewhale ALPHA presents 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗟 by DV Ghost as the platform’s second release: a series of five unique 1/1 animated GIFs that transforms broadcast weather imagery into unstable visual landscapes.

The release enters through a practice built around controlled data corruption, signal decay, and the unstable relation between digital and analog media. Working with found footage, AI generated video, datamoshing, signal interference, compression manipulation, and analog processes, DV Ghost treats the image as a structure constantly moving between preservation and disappearance.

𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗟 begins from one of the most familiar image systems of public life: the televised forecast. Weather broadcasts promise orientation. They translate atmosphere into maps, warnings, fronts, panels, place names, and shared public time. In this series, that language is pulled out of its informational function and reassembled as moving image, where prediction becomes texture, signal becomes environment, and memory becomes a form of instability.

Rather than using corruption as a surface effect, the series treats it as compositional method. Image compression, codec behavior, and signal instability reshape familiar broadcast material from within, generating landscapes that remain close to television while moving away from the conditions television was built to describe.

Each work is presented as a seamless animated GIF. The loop is central to the series: it reduces fragments of longer broadcast sequences to a continuous state, where movement no longer points toward an event outside the image. It sustains a condition. The forecast no longer arrives as information about what will happen. It remains on screen as duration, residue, and atmosphere.

Developed through a workflow combining AI generated footage, broadcast source material, TouchDesigner, codec manipulation, and digital post production, the series examines how contemporary image systems produce landscapes that exist between environmental phenomena and computational artifacts.

This is where 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗟 becomes more than a study of degradation. Weather becomes the ideal field because it is already unstable, already transitional, already impossible to hold as a fixed image. It moves through forecast, memory, atmosphere, screen, and data at once.

The broadcast archive carries a shared cultural memory: television, regional maps, warnings, public instruction, and the ritual of watching change become legible. AI generated footage and digital processing fracture that memory, keeping it suspended between recognition and abstraction.

Across the five works, 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁, 𝗥𝗮𝘆, 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹, and 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘆, the familiar grammar of weather broadcasting becomes a set of unstable environments. The forecast is no longer a window onto the world. It becomes a system that remembers the world through interference.

DV Ghost is a web artist and experimental visual researcher exploring controlled data corruption, signal decay, and the relationship between digital and analog media. Working primarily with video art and GIFs, the practice combines found footage and original AI generated footage with datamoshing, signal interference, compression manipulation, and analog processes to create unstable moving images that exist between preservation and disappearance.

Influenced by early internet culture and degraded media, DV Ghost’s work investigates corrupted memory, technological nostalgia, and the aesthetics of interference. Glitches are approached as traces of memory, decay, instability, and transformation.

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5 unique 1/1 animated GIFs
English auction, no reserve
Live July 15, 2026
6:00 PM CEST / 5:00 PM BST / 12:00 PM EDT
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