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 == Description ==
-With web technologies from the last century, much of the content uploaded to the web is processed in a simply unevaluated way. Websites are cropping pictures, encoding music and summarizing texts. Most of the time the results of those procedures are being left as they are. In some cases, the intention of the content can not be reconstructed. I want to find those examples and let people interpret those meaningless contents to give them a new meaning.
+With web technologies from the last century, much of the content previews uploaded to the web are processed in a simple, unevaluated way.
+Websites are previewing images and videos in lists of cropped and downscaled thumbnails. In some cases, the processed previews do not display the meaning of the original content.
+The web is full of automatically created, meaningless contents. Exploring and curating those examples and recreating them as paintings gives them a new opportunity to be interpreted by people within the art context.
+Because of the small size, the artist had to translate the images to a bigger canvas. Each pixel represents the size of 1 x 1cm. The names of the paintings are the filenames of the thumbnails, generated by the website.
 == Pictures ==
+[[File:thumb-01.jpg]]
+''Examples for thumbnails without content.''
+[[File:thumb-02.jpg]]
+''With context added.''
+[[File:thumb-03.jpg]]
+''Chosen thumbnails.''
+[[File:thumb-04.jpg]]
+''Painting in process.''
+[[File:thumb-05.jpg]]
+''Presentation.''
+[[File:thumb-06.jpg]]
+''thumb MG5jiSGyLrVBVDXF, 52 x 70cm, Acrylic on canvas''
+[[File:thumb-07.jpg]]
+''thumb xr5w10aB8jPH0dru, 39 x 70cm, Acrylic on canvas''