Sunday, 5 June 2011
Text Scans
After researching QR Codes a bit more i found out that not only can i use them as links for url's but i can also embed text in to them - only about 60 characters long but this allows me to play around with what i can actually show at my end of year exhibition. The QR codes don't just have to relate directly to pieces of work they can in fact be the work and i can play on this even more so by what i use the coding for. Be this information about the work, maps to where the piece actually exists in the city or issuing orders and making demands on the viewer.
How to make QR codes the 'Art Work"
Today i experimented with trying to make the QR codes be the work, Since coming up with this idea i have been struggling with how to tie all of the separate elements of my practice together and i feel this bit of experimentation kind of does that. Use of prop's, miniaturization, putting work on the street and trying to create some sort of interaction / participation from the viewer. I put small Q R codes in to spray-painted gold frames and glued them in groups around the city. I had 16 frames and put them into groups of four- and had pre planned various spaces to put them in - three of the codes related to photographs of my work and the fourth was a map to the next group of four. Throughout all of my briefs and work i have wanted to keep the element of surprise that element of people stumbling upon it, like a secret between me and the viewer. By wanting to keep this part of my work i am almost making a rod for my own back because how to you promote or advertise work when an intrinsic element of it for me is that the viewer should find it themselves. It's not meant to be something that you see on a poster or has a big arrow pointing to it saying "Look at me"
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