



Īs computer technology has evolved to make artificial images look ever more real - so that the latest generation of shooter and war games will look as realistic as possible - acomp is intended to go the opposite way: Instead of creating an image artificially with the intent of making it look as photo-realistic as possible, it takes an image captured from life and transforms it into something that looks real and not real at the same time. A computer that creates a jpeg does not know anything about the contents of the image: It does what it is told, in a uniform manner across the image. Colberg in (2009 – 2010). ‘Image formats like jpeg (or gif) use compression algorithms to save space, while trying to retain a large fraction of the original information. "American Pixels’ series is a pixel experiment created by Jörg M.
