The laboratory of resolution

„Thumbnails“ refer to a part of one of our fingers that some of us bite away in situations of distress while at the same time referring to the low-resolution preview images organized in a grid on web image-search tools like Google. High image resolution means bringing more pixels close enough together in one space, resulting in more information.

The Laboratory of Resolution draws a connection between the human body and technology through language; Through fictional research on resolution as a technological term as well as something we seek as human beings in our personal life for our questions, feelings and developments. In the function of a Laboratory there is something that escapes us by translating samples of the human body into knowledge, abstract predictions and visualization. Something that is left under the surface, blurred, glitched.

Through a situation with a question at its center, samples are being taken from mind and body, through written answers and the reduction of body material, the thumbnails of visitors. In this way the Laboratory is building an archive that could be an imaginary collective diary in a time to bite your thumbnails away. It becomes an organism in which translation processes take place, from the personal to the random, from specific to representation, on surfaces and in materials, with a movement of the space with it’s blurred architecture into resolution by reduction day by day.