The Unresolved Image
A FRACTAL-LIKE IMAGE WHICH CHANGES DEPENDING ON DISTANCE, 2016
Studio TheGreenEyl (DE & FR)
The Unresolved Image is a structural, fractal-like image that resolves one image into another. As you walk towards it, you zoom deeper into its layers of images, from architectural to microscopic scale. It is an investigation into the topic of visual resolution and granularity of data, and ultimately explores the limits of our perception and comprehension.
The image has a resolution of approximately 10,000 dpi, most common in semiconductor manufacturing. It is composed of myriads of images from different data-sets that are used in computer vision to teach machines to recognise and understand the human body. As the propagation of computer vision increases, so does the quantisation of data about the body: posture, face structure, fingerprints, ear shapes, iris patterns, veins – they all become machine readable aspects of the human.
BIO
Richard The is a graphic and interaction designer. After having studied at University of the Arts Berlin and the MIT Media Lab he has worked at Sagmeister Inc. and Google Creative Lab in New York. Frédéric Eyl holds a masters degree from the University of the Arts Berlin and is a founding partner at Studio TheGreenEyl Berlin, a design practice based in Berlin and New York. They create exhibitions, installations, objects, graphics and algorithms. In the past they have developed the algorithmic corporate design for the MIT Media Lab, have created various installations for exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, GRIMMWELT Kassel. Their work has been exhibited at the MoMA New York, Ars Electronica in Linz, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin and at the Design Museum, London.