≈ixels: Oxygen

≈ixels is an interactive audiovisual installation that translates ambient sound into a living experience of digital "breathing". Central to the work is the concept of oxygen as an essential yet invisible condition of life, simulated here through the dynamic behavior of an image. 

A static photograph themed around freediving is deconstructed into a grid of thousands of pixels, which react in real-time to the noise intensity of the space. Human presence and environmental sounds act as the system's triggers, causing the image to fragment and reform in a continuous cycle of contraction and expansion, echoing the rhythm of human breath and the motion of water and air currents.

The sonic dimension of the work enhances the sense of immersion, linking the underwater world of the sea and nature with the digital environment. Rather than reproducing the room’s sound, the system uses it as a parameter to compose three dynamic soundscape layers corresponding to different states of calm and intensity. From the muffled underwater tones of total silence to the peak of waves and wind as the ambient sound increases, the artwork creates a feedback ecosystem. 

In ≈ixels, image and sound cease to be static data and are transformed into a single organism that "breathes" with the viewer, highlighting the constant interaction between human, space, machine, and nature, as well as the necessity for a balanced coexistence.