Pixelwald

Pixelwald is a video and light installation with around 3000 individually controllable LED elements in the colors pink, blue, red, orange, green and darker shades of crimson, magenta and brown. In a conversation with Bice Curiger, Rist called the work "the ironic idea of a monitor exploding in a room". The video has a duration of 35 minutes. == Technical specifications ==

Rist developed the installation together with lighting designer Kaori Kuwabara. The pixel forest consists of 3000 tiny light-emitting diodes with a polycarbonate shell, each of which can be controlled individually by a video signal. In this way the lights create a fragmented but recognizable video image. At a distance of at least 200 meters away it would be possible to recognize a blurred shape. == Art historical classification and interpretation ==

Rist stated once Pixelwald would show how human synapses work. As often in her work, the inside would be turned outwards. Her videos were an attempt to create an experience of how people feel. The free hanging pixels would resemble the oxygen bubbles emitted by seaweed, but would also bring into harmony the different types of light we are confronted with daily, for example the different variants of sunlight and artificial light. The audience should be able to walk through the pixels as if they were moving through a brain. == Collections and museums ==

Pixelwald (Pixel Forest) premiered at Kunsthaus Zürich in 2016 in a retrospective of the artist called Dein Speichel ist mein Taucheranzug im Ozean des Schmerzes (Your Saliva is My Diving Suit in an Ocean of Pain). A year later, in 2017, a retrospective at the New Museum in New York included the installation as well. ==References==