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A step down in resolution for the title of the project, Solar Pixel.

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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A step down in resolution for the title of the project, Solar Pixel.

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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A framed solar cell, sitting on the table.

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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Two panel sandwiching a series of electronic boards that controls and stores the light emitted and absorbed.

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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The acrylic frame holding a LED matrix facing up.

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.