Thomas Ruff: jpegs
By showing the hidden structure of digital images, Thomas Ruff reflects on the aesthetic connotations of low-resolution and invites us to understand contemporary visual culture.
Instagram Low-res Trend
Originally conceived as a photo-sharing app, Instagram has now become the perfect place to discover the main trends of contemporary visual culture. Low-resolution is one of them.
Thomas Ruff: Nacht
In the Nacht series German photographer Thomas Ruff makes the invisible visible by using the fascinating visual vocabulary of long-lens night-vision surveillance cameras.
João Enxuto and Erica Love
Artists João Enxuto and Erica Love collect the abstract blurred images of the Google Art Project and transform them into paintings, bringing them back from their virtual limbo.
Nam June Paik’s Distortions
Distorting the TV set into a sculpture, artist Nam June Paik breaks the seemingly inviolable power of broadcast television, allowing the viewer to manipulate its form at will.
The Truth of Digital Images
In a world where most of digital images have reached a definition that matches and even exceeds human perceptual abilities, how can we evaluate the veracity of an image?
Nam June Paik’s Vision
Through his artworks, Nam June Paik predicted key issues of the future such as the internationalization of communication and the impact of mass media and internet on society.
Liza Lou’s Color Fields
The artworks of Liza Lou create a link between the world of artistic craftsmanship and the low-resolution universe using thousands of glass beads as non-digital pixels.
Pixels, Carpets and Knots
A number of pixels constitutes a digital image in the same way knots form a carpet. But we can discover many other affinities between the digital world and artisanal, handmade work.
