Up for the challenge
The first challenge is: viivakoodi, barcode, código de parras, codice a barre...
I've always enjoyed a challenge - or rather, I've always hated to turn my back on a challenge, ever since I was a girl and the roughest, toughest boy in the playground dared me to go up on the swing with him, standing face to face, as high as it would go...
Well actually, this challenge, set by Finnish visual poet, Satu Kaikkonen, wasn't half so scary - in fact, it was pure pleasure. Time for a Vispo is a new blog run by Satu where she gives a weekly challenge to create a vispo. The 1. challenge, issued on Monday 28 June, is barcode.
id card is my response. Created in Flash, it's a random coded e-poem with voices - it's an update of a remix I created for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX
R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is a collaborative blog for digital art and e-poetry remixing, started by Randy Adams (runran) in November 2006. Barcodes have featured a number of times in remixworx so I also slipped a few other remixes into The 1. challenge. See the collection under the remixworx barcode tag, including:
seepage by runran
artifact (bicycle - 2111) by runran
artifact (rusted sergio mix) by babel (Chris Joseph)
Worx by babel