My entry in the 2008 ITP Spring Show is titled The Naked Pixel. It is a ColorKinetics iColor Tile that displays individual pixels of a nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe sequentially over time. Using a light sensor, the piece detects when the lights go out and further “undresses” each pixel’s color into its binary value by displaying a sequence of ones and zeroes. The intention is to convert a still image into an animated sequence of pixels. This changes our perception of the image by limiting the stream of optical information from a parallel format (all pixels at once) to a serial format (each pixel individually). Our visual system is incapable of parsing this information, which fundamentally changes the character of the image. Our experience of the still image becomes entirely new, even though the content of the image remains.
For more information, check out my Naked Pixel page.