A first iteration of the project is currently on display at ZHdK Transdisciplinarity Studio (Room 7.F03) Click the link below to see the image. The show runs from the 7.6.2024 till 21.6.2024 and is open from 12h00 to 20h00.

Imagine you are incredibly small, about 1mm tall, and you're exploring the intricate insides of a camera. You float along the circuit traces, inspecting screws that tower over you.

Reaching the edge of a large glass surface, you push off and glide along the precisely ground curve of the final lens. Below, a shimmering sea of nearly imperceptible pixels stretches out on the camera sensor. Above, you see a distorted, distant image of the outside world, visible through multiple layers of glass lenses.

You observe single photons streaking past you like meteors. They strike the sensor at varying distances, illuminating the pixels. The pixels then discharge into the circuitry, and you feel the static electricity in the air, prickling the hairs on your arms. The charge is carried away into the circuits, slowly assembling the image.

A photograph, by its nature, always captures a moment from the past. However, when you engage in photography yourself, it becomes an exercise in the present. It involves a heightened perception of the current moment and a practice of envisioning possible futures. The roaming pixel emphasizes this moment of speculating about different potential outcomes, making it the focal point.

The roaming pixel captures snapshots on a larger-than-human timescale, taking 30 days instead of 1/30th of a second. The resulting performative experience focuses on the here and now in a specific physical location.

The roaming pixel, is a poetic take on a non-human camera apparatus. A single-pixel light sensor roams and captures surroundings with the continuous data flow being projected in real-time. This project invites a discourse on the interplay of technology, time, and the influence of photographic images through the dynamic, self-overwriting low resolution photographic images.

2024, Florian Amoser, florianamoser.ch
server architecture by Pietro Alberti, pietroalberti.ch