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About PICSEL
PICSEL is a cultural institution built around collective authorship and artificial intelligence. Its inaugural project, The First Manifesto, invites one million participants to each acquire a single pixel on a shared canvas, choose a fragment from eight centuries of art history, and assign a directive that tells AION — an AI system trained on 800 years of visual art — how to synthesize the final work. The result is a painting that no individual authored, no algorithm predicted, and no committee approved.
Key Facts
Project: The First Manifesto — Campaign I / 2025
Canvas: 1,366 × 768 pixels (1,049,088 total positions)
Price: €1 per picsel
Art pool: 413 public domain artworks spanning 800 years
AI system: AION — trained on Western art history from the 13th century to the present
Website: picselmanifesto.com
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PICSEL is a seven-campaign cultural institution. Each campaign poses a distinct anthropological question and records, at scale, how one million people engage with it. The First Manifesto asks: What is the impulse that makes a human being want to create something that did not exist before?