Sunday 20 February 2011

Visit #2: Writing Machine Collective


Artwork name: jsut code
Artist: Winnie SOON + Helen PRITCHARD

This work is about collect some message which include "Life" and "death" words from Twitter and convert them into QR format. At the first, we see many QR code on the wall, then we need to use a device which support QR code to scan the code and get the original message. Each QR code means different messages.



It is very interesting, when I saw the messages, although I know the messages were separated,I still want to find a relationship between messages. I want to know more about why they write the message and think about the meaning of "life" or "death" in the original message. Maybe my understanding of the message is not the same as the original, but i think this process is very great. The words become meaningful for everyone through the rethinking process because each person has its own understanding. We gain different things from this work.

Also, The words become more interesting because we need to scan the QR code to see the message. More interaction between the words because We will not think about the words when the words just show up on the web or paper.