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.
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.
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.
Hito Steyerl’s Disappearance
Hito Steyerl's work uncovers a frightening revelation on the new normal of human condition: our presence in the global world is substantiated far more in our digital identity.
Benjamin Grosser’s Pixels
The pixel is the fundamental unit of digital imaging. Pixels are always the same size, and always arranged in orderly grids. What happens when you change these universal standards?
Ryoji Ikeda’s Patterns
Ryoji Ikeda's audiovisual installations allow us to immerse ourselves in a digital world made of black and white, flickering barcode patterns. We are the network, the artist is saying to us.
