The Institute has long maintained a dress code for its patrons (devastating elegance, observed by Nigel). We now extend this rigour to the works themselves, down to the individual pixel.
The New Standards
Effective immediately, all pixels appearing in Institute works must:
- Arrive composed. A pixel that is loud without reason will be asked to reconsider its saturation.
- Respect the neighbours. No pixel may clash with an adjacent pixel unless the clash has been pre-approved as "tension."
- Avoid try-hard gradients. We can tell when a pixel is reaching. We always can.
On Enforcement
We wish to be transparent: there is no mechanism to enforce any of this. Pixels do not read our dispatches. They do not attend the meetings. They cannot be sent home to change.
The dress code is therefore aspirational, like most of our policies, and exists chiefly so that we may refer to "our standards" in conversation and watch the room go quiet.
A Note on the Engine
We are reassured to report that the Institute's deterministic art engine already produces pixels of impeccable bearing, arranged with a confidence the committee finds reassuring and slightly intimidating. The same source and movement will always yield the same well-dressed result: a consistency we describe, grandly, as "provenance," and which the pixels describe as "Tuesday."
The Standards Committee, watching every pixel, helplessly