| Bar Code Noise is made using a collection of 335 small animated GIF files containing random numbers and bars with varying frame rates. This net.art piece is about the power and comfort of consumerism. It generates a chaotic spray of bar codes to fuel our desires to want more stuff. The bar codes flicker like an electronic fire built to keep our eyes interested and brain warm. The amount of bar codes can grow to overwhelm the viewer with a flood of possible products. I am interested in technology both in the market place and also in art. This piece is a response to critics of digital art that write about limits of prepackaged software. The black and white ticking bars mimic the binary data making the art itself possible.
I added a new function that launches an Automatic Refresh Window which cycles through every possible screen.
I have also made this artwork available to download for free as a Macintosh Aladdin DropZip file. bar_code_noise.zip (1.1 MB)
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