The BIX is a light and media facade at the Kunsthaus Graz facing the Mur and the city centre. Since its opening in 2003, it has served artists and curators as a means of communication and interaction with the urban space. The BIX emphasises the organically shaped structure through its changing lighting.
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The BIX is part of the ,Skinʻ: the Kunsthaus Graz has no walls, no roof and no plinth, but a coherent shell, a skin".
Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, architects of the Kunsthaus Graz.
"We threw overboard the usual evaluative standards of screen technology: no colour, low resolution and old technology that can do very little. Why? Because the media facades of the time were strongly exposed to economic constraints. With the Kunsthaus it was different."
Realities:united, Jan Edler
56x25
Animations, images and lettering with a resolution of 56 x 25 pixels can run across the facade.
946
946 commercially available 40-watt fluorescent tubes, each 40 cm in diameter and covering an area of 900 m2 , with a width of approx. 45 m and a height of approx. 20 m, can be individually controlled by software behind the acrylic glass panels, are dimmable and can flash 20 times per second.
BIX
BIX, by the way, is a neologism made up of BIG and PIXEL.
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