(1) This reference to Close comes from a viewing of a 1997 IRIS print of Alex in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This author remembers it as being highly pixilated, but also of primary importance is its production using digital means.
(2) Baudrillard, Jean. The Illusion of the End, Chris Turner (Translation). Stanford University Press: Stanford, California, January 1995.
(3) After the turn of the millennium, there have been pieces, including one by the author (pixel: 255,25,255 [2003]), that have dealt with the formal collapse to the single pixel or hyper-low resolution. For the scope of this article/manifesto, the fact that this has been realized is sufficient for the purposes of our argument.