Micro/Macro (Course)
Summer 2020
Niklas Söder
Das Schwebende
Fang Tsai
Eye Simulation
Dirk Erdmann
ground truth
Orlando Helfer Rabaça
Looking down I see up.
Özcan Ertek
Melting Soundscapes
Tsingyun zhang
Pixelate
Julius Fuehrer
Plant Lamp
Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya
The heavy sun
Livia Kirchner
What it would be like to be inside a beer
Tsingyun zhang — Pixelate
Micro/Macro (Course) — Summer 2020
Although satellite images represent the physical world from a macroscopic point of view, sometimes they have a very close resemblance to tiny digital elements, like pixels or glitches.
Those pixels in the picture usually show up after a flood: after flooding some crop fields have been inundated, but others have not and these end up seeming like chunks of pixels. This is similar to how things happen in the digital world: when we load too much data at the same time, glitches or chunks of pixels may appear.
I’m interested in this interpenetration between the digital and the physical realm, and so I wanted to create a digital phenomenon in the physical world. In this case, in order to make the pixels that are at a micro scale comparable to the whole of a landscape, I enlarged them and attempted to make them tangible.