Materiality of pixels
Juan Colombo
Antwerp
About
i'm a visual designer and artist, i like digital artifacts and getting lost in the keyboard shortcuts of blender. In 2020 I co-founded Borlottee, a chaotic art collective. Among the things we do, we designed cloth labels for trees and the new and updated edition of briscola playing cards. Now we are busy mixing from the roof of a '98 sharan.
In 2025 I enrolled in the master of Visual Arts in Sint-Lucas Antwerpen, where I've been busy watering my digital plants. Exploring different way to relate with the non-human, in a journey between gardening and cyberspace.
Project
Materiality of Pixels is an ongoing research focusing on the dialectical relationship between the digital image and the hardware that displays it. The final object is presented enclosed within a injection-molded plastic case and its bright and colorful image redirects our gaze to the virtual dimension. Uncovering the inner complexity of the monitor-object blurs the boundaries of the monitor, exposing the assemblage of interconnected systems that interact with each other through strict protocols.