Posts Tagged “pixel value”

Daniel Barthélémy, Gilles Bollaert

“Pixel Memories” is a Research Workshop. Its work is based on a principle that uses the pixel value of an image - or sequence of images - as temporal index to generate images with non-synchronous pixels. The indexing might be based on the intensity of the pixels, their chromatic value, or a combination of both. Persistence and accumulation effects, or proximity influence might be added to the indexing principle to obtain an even larger array of effects inducing a sort of “memory” of the pixels. By using the pixel as matter at work, the image is jeopardized in its very nature, and escapes the simple mimetic representation of reality.

As this mechanism enables to blend, in a very subtle way, different temporalities into the image, it was given the generic name of “Pixel Memories”.

Matter, Form and Narration. This principle of indexing pixels into time is a new form of narration that excites the creativity of artists when it comes to processing movement in a cinematographic image. There, movements are described in a non-linear, non-synchronous form, temporality is fragmented, deferred, distorted and anamorphic. Imbrications, irruptions, and contaminations, all these processes generate ” breaches of parallel time” where stories can be juxtaposed or merged.

The processing of such composite images also poses the question of the status of sound and its relationship to different spatio-temporal spaces.

During this symposium, the works of the site will be updated, and five students will discuss their current research.