8448 x 4 CM long painting
on canvas,
or
data file
to be wrapped
on hardware
8448 x 4 CM long painting on canvas, or data file, to be wrapped over hardware (a painting of 32 x 32 pixels wide, 1 pixel deep, both sides)
Inspired by the 2011 works “Beyond Yes and No” and “29 PARALLEL STRIPES”, by Beflix,
UnResolved explores the fluidity of data and illustrates how the transition from analogue to digital incorporates both vertical quantitative resolution (as seen in analogue systems like PAL, which is 576p) and horizontal resolution.
Using a bitmap image, I followed the linear organization of pixelated data. In a .BMP (raster image data file), the image's luminance and chrominance data are encoded pixel by pixel in a linear sequence, one after the other.
In UnResolved, every pixel or data point is hand-painted onto a 64-meter-long canvas strip, which is then mounted on a frame. When wrapped correctly and unrolled over hardware with the right dimensions, UnResolved reveals a double-sided image: one side shows my portrait, and the other side displays a cryptographic message in DCT (a cryptographic tool developed in 2015): BEYONDRESOLUTION.
With UnResolved I demonstrate how a bitmap file, when ‘opened’ on different hardware, can generate alternate modes of reading, writing or seeing:
the hardware defines what is perceived.
some images of the making of: 32 stripes of canvas were encoded, sewn into a very long strip, and painted.