Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

Learning from Pixels

Datum: DO-FR 28. / 29.06.2018

Ort: Alter Sitzungssaal, Altbau der Akademie, EG

The German word “Auflösung” refers to both the resolution of an image, the technical term for its assembled constituents - digitally implemented: its amount of pixels - and to dissolution: of sugar in water, of people in laughter or tears, of objects or details merging with the background. The workshop Re/Dissolution aims to investigate this double meaning not as a coincidence but as a real connection between an increasingly greater resolution of an image with its high amount of pixels, promising a sharper image or a visual “higher definition,” and the dissolution in this very process where single pixels become less and less visible as they dissolve into millions of other pixels around them. While “sharpness” brings up an alleged phenomenological indication to see more details of an object and to differentiate it from its surrounding, it also entails a loss of distinction when focusing on the pixels rather than the assembled object.

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