CODE STORY

Content type
Creative Work
Author
Ted Warnell
Contributor
John Boylan
Tim Campbell
Tyler Gabrysh
Ross Dodd
Ciarra Glass
Linda Rogers
Ross Priddle
Les Pearson
Year
Appears in
Engineered Opacity and Illegible Interfaces in Ted Warnell's CODE STORY
Publisher
Government of Alberta, Canada Alberta Foundation for the Arts Multidisciplinary Grant Program
URL
CODE STORY
Language
English
Publication Type
Published on the Web (individual site)
Platform/Software
HTML
Event
Electronic Literature Organization 2018: Mind the Gap!
License
All Rights reserved
Record Status
Approved record
Tags
code
HTML
visual and literary art
codestory
interpretation
generative art
Description (in English)

CODE STORY is a visual and literary arts project, which includes nine digital code portraits. Which includes nine static, physical photographs, and nine dynamic, virtual Web pages. 

The Digital code are compromised of standard codes with values ranging from 0 to 255. It is the value, sequence, and most importantly the interpretation of these codes that determine what information is represented. The Codestory project investigates possibilities for a creative interpretation of digital code. 

Pull Quotes

If you think of     digital code as digital DNA,    and datasets as genetic maps,    then you are understanding the creative thrust of this project.

Screen shots
Technical notes

The Codestory project uses digital code to create new visual and literary portraits, which portraits are rendered both as physical photographs and as virtual Web pages. Each photograph and corresponding Web page is created using digital code from a unique dataset. A dataset is constructed of digital code from an original portrait photograph; processed digital code that can be dynamically combined and recombined with virtually endless variation.

Also; the Screenshots provided only illustrates one (of each of the nine generative artworks) of many possible outcomes, following the inherent generative features of the artworks.