Auf der RESPONSIVE in Halifax

Friedrich Boell: Dead Pixels (2018)
Based on Böll’s discovery of a box of damaged iPhones, Dead Pixels features a freestanding, choreographed grid of flickering phone screens that are individually re-programmed byBöll to mimic the individual pixels in a larger, abstract composition. Böll has an extensive knowledge of electronics from his work and studies at Information Technology and Network Systems, in Berlin, Germany, combined with his education from Academy of Media Arts, in Cologne.

Boell is a student at the Media Arts Academy of cologne and was a student contributor to our sister exhibition in Cologne COLLUMINA.

Dawid Liftinger + Camilo Sandoval: RGBW

Within a fraction of seconds, the three primary colours red, green, blue (RGB) and also white are projected sequentially onto a surface to create to the human eye a single colourful image. The artists want to deconstruct this “artificial” image and show the original components.
A projector is placed in the middle of an empty room pointing towards a spinning 45-degree-tilted mirror. The projection falls onto the surrounding walls as the only source of light in the room. On certain RPMs, which resonate with the projector’s frequency, the image divides from as usually perceived white into several fractured projections. The colours red, green, blue, and white (RGBW) twine on the walls creating a seamless colourful loop. The result, effectively and also technically, alludes to those of an old zoetrope. Visitors are invited to enter the room and spend as much time as desired in order to perceive the different effects generated by the combinations of different light intensities and variations in speed of the rotating mirror.