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Marco Nuno Mourão
SOLAR PIXEL
SOLAR PIXEL illustrates the intimate relationship between human and energy, attempts to advocate for questions against our unimaginative, unsustainable future, and ultimately question and locate our role behind the apertural exposure to solar energy.
One of the questions could be, how do we see energy manifest into our social structure. How are cities lit up, and what can we study from the pixels that we record using satellite images and data gathering and extrapolation. In this context, pixels on the screens are only apertures, which allows census organizations, government agencies, corporate research teams, or planners to estimate activities that are quantized, statisticalized.
SOLAR PIXEL wants to re-understand, re-evaluate and remap the pixel to allow for reimagination of a sustainable lifestyle. At the same time, allowing individuals and collectives to farm, meter and own their power through a representation of different relationship and responsibility with energy.
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Solar Pixel Rasterization
Illustrator, Screen Pixels
8.5" by 11" - 300dpi, 200dpi, 100,dpi, 50dpi, 25dpi
2022
A relationship with energy that is censored, generalized, rasterized.
Mapping with Light
Pixel Array, LED, Solar Energy and Battery
6" by 6" by 3"
2022
A array of light emitting diode mapping information of an energy phenomenon. Where sunlight is absorbed, processed, and emitted as datapoints.
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Solar Pixel - Solar Cell
Acrylic, Solar Cell, LED Array, Solar Battery, Light controller.
6" by 6" by 3"
2022
The receiving side of the SOLAR PIXEL.
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Solar Pixel - Controller and Meter
Acrylic, Solar Cell, LED Array, Solar Battery, Light controller.
6" by 6" by 3"
2022
The controller and meter of light mapping and solar harvesting.
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Solar Pixel - Light Emitting Diode Array
Acrylic, Solar Cell, LED Array, Solar Battery, Light controller.
6" by 6" by 3"
2022
The emitting side of SOLAR PIXEL, with every LED pixel as a datapoint, a representation of both the person and energy.
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