Six-Forty by Four-Eighty Interactive Lighting Installation

Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is an interactive lighting installation designed by Zigelbaum and Coelhoto to reveal the materiality of computation by recontextualizing the common pixel.

The installation is composed of two hundred and twenty magnetic pixel-tiles in a darkened room. Each pixel is to be touched, moved, and modified. At the start of the day the pixel-tiles are packed together as a display and by the end of the day they will have migrated across the walls in the room.

By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation itself and new forms for design emerge.