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corruption as method

Break the codec on purpose
Every frame is a negotiation between signal and entropy. We choose entropy.
Displacement over precision
Sub-pixel alignment is a myth we stopped believing in 2019.
Chromatic fracture is a feature
Three color channels, three opinions. None of them agree.
The artifact is the message
JPEG blocks, scanline tears, buffer overflows — all compositional tools.