Overloaded attempts to be a system to explore time perception, through non-representative images, while still representing pixels as upscaled forms. It plays with permanence and non-permanence.

overloaded #434

overloaded #1

GIF / generated by custom software
2021

1920x1080 pixels, 180 frames, 30fps, 90 colors

kaiC

1001-1x1001-1 pixels
181-1 frames
4-1 colors
2022-1

The 33 unique artworks presented in gämma are self-contained systems; each contains 3 seeds generated by the system, selected and arranged by the artist to comprise the final composition. The works are minted on Tezos — the first exhibition on Feral File to use this blockchain. 

p1xelfool conceptualized these works with Processing, its visual and responsive coding environment feeling more expressive to the artist than analog painting. The works are executed with p5.js, which allowed p1xelfool to program pixels in the browser in real-time. “Instead of asking the program to draw lines, I asked it to manipulate the pixel arrays,” he describes. This underscores the conceptual motivation of the project, namely, the reappropriation of pixels (and light and code) rather than the visuals produced by them. When viewing the work, there is the option to hit the “P” key to pause the pattern; hitting the “S” key will save and download the frame. 

p1xelfool’s generative animations are inspired by the logic of particle systems, yet they share no reference to the natural world. The visual environments of the works are specific only to the computer. In each work, two superimposed and interrelated systems simultaneously interact with one another. Their interrelated velocities determine the speed at which blocks of interplaying (and playful) color seem to descend to the bottom of the screen, cycling through new patterns and creating the illusion of endlessness. Colors and patterns are rhythmic and vibrational; visual pleasure is immense and infinite.

9 + 0 * 11

2022
GIF / generated by custom software
1920x1080 pixels, 180 frames, 24fps, 4 colors

noë*

overloaded #4

overloaded

Hic et Nunc

GIF / generated by custom software
2022

1920x1080 pixels, 180 frames, 30fps, 3 colors

keut

Versum

1000+0x1000+0 pixels
180+0 frames
3+0 colors
2021+0

extended overload

3 + 1 * 11

Pixels are the smallest element that can be displayed on a digital screen, groupings of which comprise the billions of still and moving images in circulation today.
Pixels are not dissimilar to gamma rays, the shortest yet most powerful of the rays in the electromagnetic spectrum.
The difference between them would seem to do with perception: gamma rays are invisible, pixels are not.
However, both require specifically designed environments to engender visibility, such as a scintillation detector or a computer with a digital display.
Because of the relative ubiquity of the latter, the specificity — and necessity — of the computer environment may be easily overlooked, if not forgotten, when perceiving pixels.
The seduction of the screen, with its pixel-based representations, obfuscates the fusion of software and hardware that illuminate content: code and cold cathode.
As p1xelfool says, ‘Code = light.’ — p1xelfool

Feral File #018 - gämma by p1xelfool

nyes*

unheaven*Ψ

trāma is part of the interactive minting experience at NFT Show Europe, Valencia, 2023.

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trāma is a project in continuity with a wider body of work exploring the subject of computers as a source of aesthetic phenomena.

Beyond being utilitarian machines, is it possible to have such devices not only as mediators between representational content and humans, but also as aesthetic manifestations that connect to our senses?

The low visual resolution, the motion, and the timing of the work are informed by early computer graphics, mechanical displays and the rawness that older computational systems tend to carry.

trāma features a generative system, conducted through realtime custom software that runs in the browser.


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press [p] = pause the animation
press [s] = save a screenshot
press [g] = generate gif

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