Grey Tolerance

Grey Tolerance is a live computational camera work that measures the presence of neutrality. Rather than privileging saturated chroma, the system isolates pixels that fall within a defined grey tolerance, counting, indexing, and visualising their distribution in real time. Brightness and tonal thresholds can be adjusted, making the image less a representation than a data surface. As tolerance shifts, the visible world fluctuates between density and void. Grey becomes an unstable category, defined through algorithmic parameters rather than perception alone.

Eventually the piece will develop into a grid of recorded grey maps, a cumulative archive of tonal neutrality across time and space. Each map will function as a residue of a live moment, forming a serial field of thresholds, measurements, and absences. Replacing the grey with the potential of a green screen.

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