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.
The Glitch News Network
The Glitch News Network consists of conglomerations of the day's news assembled into a video of 2000 microseconds that is entirely decipherable only at an unconscious level.
Survival Video Games and Low-res
The pixel aesthetic is very common in survival video games. However, this isn't only a nostalgic retrieval. Making pixels visible means showing the structure of digital images.
American Horror Story: Roanoke
Amateur footage, cell phone recordings and camera videos play a big role from the beginning of American Horror Story: Roanoke. Discover the terrifying side of low-resolution.
War documentaries and Low-res
Contemporary visual culture mostly represents war through archive images or low-resolution clips. That's because the immediacy of these images conveys a sense of authenticity to the spectator.
Retro Sci-fi and Pop Music
The concept of postmodernism fits our age more than ever. However, is this obsession for the past a real sentiment or just a mass phenomenon? The case of retro sci-fi style.
The Million Dollar Homepage
Follow the incredible story of Alex Tew, an English student who has become a millionaire by selling pixel chunks of its Million Dollar Homepage through the internet.
The Archive of Digital Archeology
We always assumed that digital means forever. But that's a mistake. In a time when our culture plays itself on the internet more than ever, we need an archive to preserve digital archeology.
Horror video games and low-res
Something pixelated is something unknown in a certain way. It always remains undefined, like a shadow. This is the reason why the pixel aesthetic is so successful in horror video games.
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