12288 emerges from the transformation of a video image, which has been stripped of its representative function through alterations to its pixel structure. The figurative image dissolves into a flickering mass of discrete elements, each responding to the play of light in the original footage.

The source video depicts an empty classroom—a potent archetype rooted in personal and collective memory. This image is reinterpreted, challenging the conventional relationship between time and space in digital video.

In video, the pixel—the primary graphical unit—exists in two dimensions: spatially within the frame (horizontally and vertically) and temporally across sequential frames. In this work, the artists reimagine these dimensions by interchanging the roles of pixels in space and time.

Each frame’s pixel count matches the total number of frames in the video, 12288. Using image editing techniques, the artist isolates all pixels occupying the same spatial point across the video’s full duration. These pixels are reassembled into a single frame, filling the entire spatial frame for just 1/15th of a second. This process is repeated for all pixels, converting spatial objects into temporal moments and vice versa.

By dismantling the conventional continuity of video, 12288 offers a new way of perceiving time, space, and the structures underpinning moving images.