It is impossible to imagine our hands without screens. We have come to appreciate the benefits of digital communication and its diversity, especially in the past year and a half of distance. While modern technology cannot replace the analog world with its haptic experience, it can complement it wonderfully.
Play with Pixels is an interactive Open Lab about the smallest part of a diital raster graphic. We zoom into the pixel world, enlarge, illuminate, recombine and thus make the world of digital images more tangible. At the same time, we playfully explore th e translation possibilities between analog and digital, embarking on a search for a world of images where pixels and graphic gestures meet. In this way, visitors are invited to engage with the diverse dimensions of a pixel with the help of various materials.
As part of the Kunstunicampus exhibition, the Visual Education and Media Design team invites visitors to create their own pixel postcards on site and send pixelated greetings from downtown to the Open Lab. In this way, the participatory installation is extended beyond the boundaries of Kepler’s Gardens. And via the “pixel phone”, short daily glimpses of what is being created in the Open Lab are offered, enabling parallel analog and digital communication and thus combining the advantages of both worlds.
