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Flickr City

Inspired selection

Powerpoint...... Shmower point!

Analyzing Practice on Prezi

Drawing Systems

Tim Head, Slow Life, (web A2 No.5) 2002 ink on Bristol Board

Unlike the remote precision of digital programmes the drawings carry the nervous rhythms and seismic waverings of the hand made

- Tim Head

Tim Head produces hand rendered drawings according to instructions similar to digitally produced images. The drawing is created according to the results of flipping coins. In this instance if the coin lands on heads a horizontal line is made and then a vertical line if the coin lands on tails.

A Colour Sucker

Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in Red

The horizontal field of colours (above) are the twelve most common colours that appear in the web based photographic image of Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko. These colours have been automatically sampled by the open source program Colorsuckr.

Also see Arthur Buxton's Van Gogh Visulisation and Michael Demers Color Field Paintings (Browser).

Virtual Paint Jobs

Jon Rafman, Picass0 B-2 Bomber, 2010

Everything in the World, Laura Bergman, 1997

Bergman engages with the disappearance of the physical world through its coded description as binary information. The material world (represented by the pastel image on the outside of the paper roll) is gradually unraveled by the feed mechanism of a printer. Mounted above the roll the printer

essentially uploads

the image in slithers of colour before 'downloading' the unravelled layers into a

heaped mountain

of coded information.

Richard Hutten, Playing with Tradition

Hutten plays upon the historical relationship between looms and computers, comprising the appearance of stretched pixels within the woven thread design.

Also see other analogue designs that invoke a digital process: Beam me up Scotty, I'd Buy that for a Dollar and Edges of a Hardcore

I'd buy that for a dollar

Tom Friedman, Untitled, Dollar Bill, 2000