Dead Pixels interactive installation, face recognition Dead Pixels is an algorithmic system in which the visitor simultaneously occupies the roles of observer and agent of decay. The interactive installation mimics a diagnostic test for dead pixels: with each new participant, traces of digital “death” accumulate upon the image, fragmenting and destabilizing its original coherence.

Here, the act of seeing becomes a form of consumption, and interaction itself unfolds as a process of depletion. What begins as a unified image gradually disintegrates into a landscape of digital erosion. A secondary screen monitors this transformation, mapping the corruption of the visual field and translating its breakdown into quantifiable data.

The work interrogates the paradox of technological progress and the logic of planned obsolescence. It asks how our relentless pursuit of connectivity and expansion contributes to the erosion of materiality, data, memory, and the natural world.

Dead Pixels embodies a poetics of decay and forgetting—an inquiry into the fragility of digital infrastructures, the extractive nature of technological production, and the ethics of participation within systems of consumption and loss.

presented Depoo Sofia