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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. | 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. | 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 == | == Pictures == | ||
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''Examples for thumbnails without content.'' | |||
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''With context added.'' | |||
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''Chosen thumbnails.'' | |||
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''Painting in process.'' | |||
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''Presentation.'' | |||
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''thumb MG5jiSGyLrVBVDXF, 52 x 70cm, Acrylic on canvas'' | |||
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''thumb xr5w10aB8jPH0dru, 39 x 70cm, Acrylic on canvas'' | |||