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Enrayer le code
by Vanina Pinter

Presque malgré lui, le code-barre véhicule plus de valeurs que son emploi classique ne l'y autorise. Signe marchand des temps modernes, sa ressemblance avec une grille de prison le propulse parmi les symboles les plus universels. Il devient l'indice incontestable de la victoire du progrès consumériste sur les approximations de la liberté. A sens unique, le contact s'établit uniquement en langage binaire, 0 ou 1 : jamais plus. Le code ne se laisse lire ou écrire que par la machine : l'humain est évincé. Pourtant, l'Histoire avait appris aux hommes à ne pas se laisser confondre avec des numéros aussi indélébiles qu'infamants. Une résistance s'organise alors, qui traque les espaces de liberté coincés entre ces barreaux. Il faut décoder à tout prix pour que les traits noirs sur blanc disent enfin quelque chos d'audible. Graphistes et artistes s'investissent de cette mission : redonner sens à ces formes. Ainsi redevenu lisible, le code accède à l'ironie, la fonction devient esthétique. Autant musiciens que graphistes, les Japonais de Deleware y trouvent un terrain propice pour leur expérience du minimal; ils échafaudent sur les barres une fonte longiligne. Avec elle, le code devient penseur, cite Bergson ou Einstein dans le texte. Plus bavard, Andy Deck récite sur artcontext.org/barcode l'intégralité d'Henry VIII de Shakespeare en code-barre. Plutôt que les mots Scott Blake cherche des imaages dans les codes qu'il accumule dans sa quête de spiritualité. Avec ses mosaïques, il trace la génétique de ses icônes. Ses suaires d'un genre nouveau révèlent les visages du Christ ou de Marilyn à qui sait prendre suffisamment de distance.

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Almost despite himself, the barcode vehicle more values than the conventional employment authorized to do so. Merchant sign of modern times, looking like a prison gate propels among the most universal symbols. He became the undisputed evidence of the victory of progress on the approximations of consumerist freedom. A one-way contact is only in binary, 0 or 1: never again. The code can be read or written by the machine: the human is ousted. However, history had taught men not to leave too confused with numbers indelible infamy. A resistance is organized then, which tracks the spaces of freedom caught between those bars. It must decode at any price for the black lines on white finally say something audible. Designers and artists are involved in this mission: to give meaning to these forms. So once more readable, the code accesses the irony, the function becomes aesthetic. Both musicians designers, there are Japanese Delaware fertile ground for their experience of minimum they echafaudent on bars melt rangy. With it, the code becomes a thinker, Bergson and Einstein quote in the text. More talkative, Andy Deck recites over artcontext.org/barcode an entire Shakespeare's Henry VIII barcode. Rather than the words of Scott Blake seeks imaages in codes that accumulates in his quest for spirituality. With its mosaics, he traces the genetics of its icons. His shroud of a new genre show the faces of Christ or Marilyn who knows appropriate distance.


Printed in Etapes Graphiques Magazine, July 2002
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