Code
Novum Design Award
WINNER
SILVER
Digital Art and Graphic Design Category
in
2020
Project Title
Code
Project Function
Art Book
Project Location
San Francisco
Project Tags
Digital art, Language, Code, Sewing
Office Name
Team Members
Shan Xu and Tairan Hao
Office Link
Copyrights
Shan Xu
Project Description
Code is a kind of hard to understand and controlled language, like C++, Java. It's preciseness and order exist in the digital world; in the meantime creates some mystery and tremendous work in the real world—this language, like a Morse Code, tries to translate one word to another meaning. I want to read its content and different meaning, this artwork uses accurate data, and regular pattern created a tangled trajectory, the irony is that the development of technology and data is really orderly what we see on the surface, or hide a chaos?
1. Based on the computer C++ code, output the glitch image, with disturbing emotions playing on the image.
2. Disassembled a physical circuit board to explore the inside information by a physcal way. Scan and print the profile of each unit of the board. Then a sawing machine was used to become an ideal representation of the transportation and communication between the digital units.
3. The most mysterious thing about a circuit board is its information storing and transportation functionality, which was only making sense to engineers before this project. This project discovered a way to reveal its inner sp
Project Link
Image Credits
Shan Xu
NDA200465
DESIGN SCORE: /100
86
SILVER
Novum Design Award Winner in
2020