The BLOB of Im/Possible Images

Map to the BLOB of Im/Possible Images. 
Featuring an Ecology of Compression Complexities. 

⦁ Dots
━ Lines
▩ Blocks
⌇ Wavelets
⟗ Vectors

Added by: Mark Sutton (trigger, CERN)

A proton consists of 3 quarks which are, besides gluons, the fundamental building blocks of the universe. These subatomic particles, the smallest particles we know of, are far smaller than the protons and neutrons in which they are found. 

But Quarks are also smaller than the wavelengths of (visible) light. This means there is no equipment available for actually taking this image. 

Added by: Rafael Ballabriga Sune

A colour X-ray imaging technique that produces 3D cut-through pictures, to help doctors diagnose their patients more accurately. At the moment the time penalty for creating these scans is too high to use in practice. 

"Medipix is a family of read-out chips for particle imaging and detection. The original concept of Medipix is that it works like a camera, detecting and counting each individual particle hitting the pixels when its electronic shutter is open. This enables high-resolution, high-contrast, very reliable images, making it unique for imaging applications in particular in the medical field."

Missing images are ubiquitous, but seldom considered. I think we are actually conditioned not to think about what is missing. This is one way for bias to slip into our routines. 

Moon texture by NASA, Andromeda by Andrei Shirkin

In the sky, the Andromeda galaxy is about 3x as big as the moon or the Sun. If you hold up your thump in front of you, you see it will be roughly the same size as both the moon and the Sun. Andromeda would be much bigger.
It is however impossible to capture the Andromeda galaxy and the moon in one picture: Andromeda is too far and not bright enough. Next to the Moon the galaxy would wash out.
All the photos we have of the night skye in which we see both the Moon and Andromeda are doctored.

Moon texture by NASA, Andromeda by Andrei Shirkin

In the sky, the Andromeda galaxy is about 3x as big as the moon or the Sun. If you hold up your thump in front of you, you see it will be roughly the same size as both the moon and the Sun. Andromeda would be much bigger.
It is however impossible to capture the Andromeda galaxy and the moon in one picture: Andromeda is too far and not bright enough. Next to the Moon the galaxy would wash out.
All the photos we have of the night skye in which we see both the Moon and Andromeda are doctored.

Planck constant time is the smallest slice of time, while the Quantum Vacuum is a state with the lowest possible energy, in which every possible state is possible at the same time, if these states even each other out at that particular interval. 

In other words: a possible slice of everything all at once, with a zero sum of nothing. 

(this explanation is written by a non-physicist and is up for debate!) 

Only 5% of our universe is made out of ordinary matter and energy (energy and matter we know and understand), while the rest is divided between 27% dark matter and 68% of a form of energy known as dark energy.

Dark matter is called dark because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation, and is therefore difficult to detect. 

A pixelated, colourful texture unfolds along the dome. Pixels move in swirls, creating some kind of depth, bottlenecks, to finally disappear or flow forward in ways reminiscent of pressure waves or a storm. 

An Obsolete Gamut at Zenith explores the fluidity and impermanence of data, using digital obsolescence quite literally as its material. In everyday life data, just like any other material, is subject to the hardware, software, and platforms through which it flows. These systems can leave indelible marks on it, altering or deforming its structure and content. 

Technically, a source video was compressed with AVI Cinepak (1991), using an 8-bit grayscale palette (256 greys). Its blocky texture, a result of quantization in the 8-bit grayscale palette, illustrates how continuous values are transformed into a limited range of discrete greys. With the decline in support for the Cinepak codec, modern media players fail to properly interpret its color palette, leading to a striking and unintended alteration in color representation. This misalignment leads to unexpected but striking misrepresentation of its now obsolete gamut, resulting into randomly diverging colour palettes.  

An Obsolete Gamut at Zenith mirrors the rapid evolution of codec technologies, highlighting the ephemeral nature of digital data, which is constantly transforming and evolving within the landscape of digital compression and decompression.

Commissioned and acquired by Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Germany.