Chuck Close’s Portraits
Chuck Close disassembles images into pixels with a methodical system based on photography's underlying processes, suggesting that the "whole" is always the sum of its parts.
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.
Mishka Henner’s Google Maps Art
Artist Mishka Henner documents the process of censorship in Google Maps, a HD platform where low-resolution becomes a defense tool against the ubiquitous eye of the internet.
Low-res in Art History [4]
We always associate resolution to digital images. However, its concept can be expanded to all pictures, tracing the journey of low resolution in art history.
Jacques Perconte’s manipulations
Jacques Perconte specializes in the manipulation and degradation of digital images. His research focuses on lossy data compressions that produce distortions and pixellations.
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.
Low-res in art history [3]
We always associate resolution to digital images. However, its concept can be expanded to all pictures, tracing the journey of low resolution in art history.
Mrouè: The Pixelated Revolution
After the Syrian revolution, Lebanese artist Rabih Mrouè analyses powerful and dramatic images and clips recorded by civilians as snipers were shooting them to death.
