Principles of New Media:Numerical Representation
PTT is a terminal-based bulletin board based in Taiwan.
PTT is arguably the largest BBS in the world with more than 1.5 million registered users. During peak hours, there are over 150,000 users online. It has over 20,000 boards with a multitude of topics, and more than 40,000 articles and 1 million comments are posted every day.
Since 2000, Ptt has become the largest online forum in Taiwan due to its increasing number of users. Topics of various issues are enthusiastically discussed on Ptt, even to a profound extent generating social impacts in reality. The newspaper and television media started to report on Ptt, with journalists assigned to monitor Ptt for the latest updates.
The idea of an virtual world that heavily influences the reality world is nothing new.
To stress the virtual world idea further, it is a portal for us to outreach to almost anything.
http://www.goodanime.net/summer-wars
The above clip is from an anime called “Summer Wars”, the first four minutes articulates the idea of the wide society on the internet.
Influenced by both, I decided to use the common internet code language to create art.
An art that will be exhibited and viewed in the “other internet world.”
The original code that was inserted. Each numerical pattern stands for each color of the pixel and the width of the pixel.
An african american woman.
Half nude chest.
A girl with glasses.
An old man.
Image Originals
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System
Images: Art+Commerce