Dead Pixel

The installation Dead Pixel is based on the discovery of a box full of defective cell phone displays in the bulky waste. It consists of a steel frame from which 8 acrylic glass panels hang in a slightly curved arrangement. These panels are each covered with 24 Iphone displays. The backlights of the displays are individually controlled by self-developed electronics and thus form the pixels of a large overall screen. This plays a cyclic light animation of about two minutes duration. Through the additional artistic destruction of the individual Iphone screens in the process, the light creates textures and emerges in uneven artifacts. On the reverse side of the installation, on the other hand, it creates iridescent colors. The individual displays were arranged according to the structure of their cracks, so that crack superclusters are formed in the whole.