Pixelatism

Pixelatism is a rising art movement can be related to NFT art works and it represents the abstract base of the digital world and the post-digital rendering. The idea of Pixelatism is to abstract the pigmentation of the natural elements and materials in order to represent it from its base atom and not from its manufactured form, this rising movement elaborate more on the soul of the material and not on the end product. Pixelatism from word Pixels in digital imaging, a pixel, or picture element is a smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all-points addressable display device; so, it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen. Each pixel is a sample of an original image; more samples typically provide more accurate representations of the original. The intensity of each pixel is variable. In color imaging systems, a color is typically represented by three or four component intensities such as red, green, and blue, or cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.

Figure 62: Colors of Pixel CMYK

In some contexts (such as descriptions of camera sensors), pixel refers to a single scalar element of a multi-component representation (called a photo-site in the camera sensor context, although Sensel is sometimes used), while in yet other contexts it may refer to the set of component intensities for a spatial position. The word pixel is a combination of pix (from "pictures", shortened to "pics") and el (for "element"); similar formations with 'el' include the words voxel and texel. The word pix appeared in Variety magazine headlines in 1932, as an abbreviation for the word pictures, in reference to movies. By 1938, "pix" was being used in reference to still pictures by photojournalists.

The word "pixel" was first published in 1965 by Frederic C. Billingsley of JPL, to describe the picture elements of scanned images from space probes to the Moon and Mars. Billingsley had learned the word from Keith E. McFarland, at the Link Division of General Precision in Palo Alto, who in turn said he did not know where it originated. McFarland said simply it was "in use at the time”

Figure 63: Pixels in Screen (Zoom Out & Zoom in)

Reflecting the notion of materiality, color, functionality and returning to the soul of the entity, implementing these notions on architecture in terms of wall treatments and finishes as pixelating the treatment and zooming in to the very tiny atoms of these materials and representing the soul of it in pixels, showing some of the materials like Concrete, Granite, Wood, Stone…etc.

Concrete

Granite

Sand | Sandstone

Marble

Wood

WOTHOUSE

Architects: NSW AS Area: 248 sqm Location: Oslo, Norway Built in 2014 Function: Residential House Features: - Simple Cubic Shape - Clean Edged - Pixelated Exterior Treatment using Natural Stone Cladding - Non-coherency Interior-Exterior (Cladded Exterior vs White Plastered Interior)

Source: NSW AS. (2014), ArchDaily “https://www.archdaily.com/592298/wothouse-nsw-as

Figure 64: WOTHOUSE, photograph by Einar Aslaksen