Insert Coin

What is a moment in the virtual world? Jan Kath uses the works of Frankfurt artist Raphael Brunk as the basis for the INSERT COIN collection. Screenshots of arcade computer games form the starting point for his works: Sometimes it is a nocturnal boulevard with colorful neon signs, sometimes a deserted beach in the morning or the frozen scene of a thrilling car chase on the streets of Miami, which the master student of Andreas Gursky digitally processes.

What is a moment in the virtual world?
Jan Kath uses the works of Frankfurt artist
Raphael Brunk as the basis for the INSERT COIN
collection. Screenshots of arcade computer
games form the starting point for his works:
Sometimes it is a nocturnal boulevard
with colorful neon signs,
sometimes a deserted beach in the morning
or the frozen scene of a thrilling car chase
on the streets of Miami,
which the master student of Andreas Gursky
digitally processes.

The computer‘s algorithm dissects the images so that the motif is no longer recognizable. Dissolved into all its pixels, the photograph ultimately becomes the color palette of something entirely new and serves as the knotting pattern for a carpet. Jan Kath interprets this template and finally brings the approximately 1.7 million pixels back into the real world, knot by knot.

The computer‘s algorithm dissects
the images so that the motif
is no longer recognizable. Dissolved
into all its pixels, the photograph
ultimately becomes the
color palette of something entirely new
and serves as the knotting pattern
for a carpet. Jan Kath interprets
this template and finally brings
the approximately 1.7 million pixels
back into the real world, knot by knot.