Twin Pixel

Twin Pixel, in its first iterations, was a collaboration between Compiler (2018 line-up: Tanya Boyarkina, Oscar Cass-Darweish and Eleanor Chownsmith) and Simon Crowe. The idea of representation at the limits of abstraction came out of conversations around the spectacle of episode 8 of Twin Peaks series 3 by David Lynch and Mark Frost. Lynch has been quoted on the idea of on watching a film on a smartphone: ‘You’ll think you have experienced it, but you’ll be cheated. It’s such a sadness…’ Thinking about at what point episode 8 is no longer episode 8, the aim was to present it at something close to its most reduced scale: in two pixel resolution, with colour information reduced to the dominant hue of each side of the frame and sound reduced to the dominant frequency per frame.

Further iterations of Twin Pixel have been developed for different contexts, including using different source material, experimenting with different numbers of pixels and most recently developing a version that uses live camera input.

For more information, and to occasionally catch a live broadcast, visit: https://twinpixel.live