Pixel: The Many Lives Of An Image
- Jahnavi Shah
- Nov 4, 2020
- 2 min read
Partner: Natalie Fajardo
We wanted to represent the many lives of an image as it goes through a series of visual changes. We experimented with different permutations of creating an image and the variations one can get from improvising on the same base code. The idea of characterising a visual so as to track its journey was interesting because our understanding of an image was immediately expended on as we viewed it as a compilation of individual pixels and not as a singular entity. With a wall of images that go through a gradual transgraression from one grid to another, we wanted to depict the many identities of an image extracted from the same core visual and communicate multiple identities. Like there are multiple ways to communicate an idea within the structure of one language with a series of sentences, the technological counterpart of the same level of communication allow for multiple emotions to be expressed within a line of code. Every variation in the string communicate a different aspect of the visual like every permutation in a sentence in a language communicates a specific emotion. Within the paradigm of p5.js, we hope to understand the technological ramifications of time in which most visual communication is digital and most human interactions are embedded in lines of code and pixel.
An interesting understanding of the same concept is elaborated on in Jean Buadrillard's module of Simulcra & Simulation. Baudrillard talks about a postmodern simulation or method of communication that is artificial or in this case, digital. By the means of simulcra, he talks about an image that is almost like a placeholder for the original. With a technological revolution, the inidividual components of the image were segregated almost like the pixels of the same, and expended into an array of copies that communicated multiple ideas. We have embodied this complex understanding of the trajectory of a core image and translated it into our variation of a simplistic journey of a visual. Baudrillard addresses how in some ways language keeps us from accessing reality. His deep rooted understadning of language and its connection with an image or reality is acutely depicted in his photography. From the perspective of p5.js and pixels, we view syntax and the assemblage of its individual components as a communication tool.
“It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real” - Jean Baudrillard
The following are few permutations of filters that we experimented with before we elaborated on one:
Final wall of images:
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