"Did you know it takes exactly 24 hours at 24fps to display each pixel on a High Definition Television screen?

Initially, a single image of Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels is translated into an animation by breaking down the image so that each pixel represents a single frame, running at the standard movie rate of 24fps.

A camera recording at 24fps is placed across from the television, displaying the above animation. The information entering the camera is processed by a computer so that after 24 hours, it can reassemble these individual pixels back to a 1920 x 1080 image. Due to errors relating to ambient light and other environmental factors, the new image will not be a perfect copy of the original. Subsequently, this image is processed to produce a new animation for the television screen. This process repeats until the characteristics of the original image become erased or corrupted beyond recognition.

Projected onto an adjacent wall is the real-time progress of the above procedure. This projection also intermittently displays the initial seed image and all the previously reassembled images.

High-definition video 1920 x 1080 pixels.
The total number of pixels is 2073600.
2073600 pixels ÷ 24fps = 86400 seconds
86400 seconds = 24 hours


Credits:
Software: Martin Nadal
Seed image: Nam June Paik, »TV-Buddha« 1974