Artist Statement

0,16 is a light installation which translates shadows into a pixelated image in real time. A static headlight illuminates a translucent wall that is divided into an array of open compartments. The shadows of passing visitors are broken into squares. The uneven light distribution is mixed in each compartment through three layers of paper into a homogeneous gray tone at the front. The actual resolution of the ‘screen’ is 0.16 pixels per inch.

• Aram Bartholl (DE) has lived and worked in Berlin since 1995. He studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated in 2001. He is a member of the ‘Urban Media Salon’ Berlin and member of the NYC based ‘Free, Art & Technology Lab’ aka ‘F.A.T. Lab’. In his installations, workshops and performances Bartholl thematizes the relationships between net data space and public, everyday life and the tension between on- and offline culture. His art works have been presented at conferences, shown at numerous festivals, and in museum and gallery shows worldwide.

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