In 2025, Pixelache Helsinki commissioned a new artwork from Antti Silventoinen and Arttu Manninen. The piece called Digital Mortality took life as a responsive webpage continuously changing, morphing and composting data, while information is updated on its body. The webpage will host digital artworks on its main page, and we will soon publish the modalities to participate. You can consult our 20-year digital archive at pixelache.ac while our new page is pixelache.com .
We’ve grown comfortable with the illusion of digital permanence—that there are no real consequences in digital spaces. Files don’t rot. Websites don’t age. Pixels don’t fade like photographs left in sunlight.
But what if they did?
The Digital Mortality artwork exists as a study on digital entropy—a living contradiction to our assumptions on the almost eternal nature of online spaces. Built to respond, erode, programmed to forget, designed to die.
The degradation process remains largely invisible for now. Like a slow poison or cellular ageing, the structures of decay are present but almost invisible. Built to resist usage.
Every interaction you make contributes to this process of compounding effects—a slight degradation and consequence that will unfold over the years. The site feels every user, not as data to be analysed, but as accumulated wear on its digital fabric.
Over the course of the pages lifespan, the decay will become more and more visible and visceral. This renders the site increasingly unstable as it ages toward its inevitable death.
After collapse comes dormancy. After dormancy, rebirth. The cycle continues, powered by the very interactions that destroyed what came before.
This art study is about making visible the hidden costs of our digital consumption.
About the artists
Antti Silventoinen is a multiple award-winning creative industry professional, entrepreneur, and musician with 25+ years of experience working with some of the world’s largest brands. His work exists at the intersection of art and technology, exploring how people engage with the world through experiences.
Projects Antti has contributed to have received numerous awards, including Cannes Lions, Vuoden Huiput, Effie, London International Awards, The Golden Award of Montreux and many more.
Arttu Manninen is a freelance programmer who has been writing poetry to computers for over 20 years. As an artist he likes to study entropy and discontinuous mind as well as apophenia or finding patterns and significance from random signals.
Arttu has been working on projects for Nokia, Kiasma, Ateneum, Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finnkino and Heureka among many others. Some of the jewels have brought international merit in contests such as Clio Awards, Cannes Lions, The Moscow International Festival of Advertising and Marketing and Facebook Studio. For the past years Arttu’s work has been focused in long-term service development as a backend programmer. Arttu’s artworks have been exhibited in Finland, Italy, Spain and Japan.
