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Adobe CS3 print, the Snow Owl
March 27th, 2007
"Adobe reached out to me to create a unique limited edition print for their March CS3 launch event here in New York. An edition of 250 prints would be created as a gift that an invitation only group of people would receive at the event. However, because of the dynamic process used to create my artwork, a system would be written using 82 individual random processes to create the composition. In short… everyone’s print would actually be unique.
So why 1/250, 2/250, 3/250, etc. instead of 1/1, 1/1, 1/1… well, because what you’re getting an edition of, is the program that runs to create the composition. The program (lines of code) never changes — what does change is the output of that program running. Hence, 1/250, 2/250, 3/250, an edition of the program… not the visual composition.
So the first brief included ideas of ornamentation and creative license. So I got right to work…
(((Here at BEYOND THE BEYOND this week, we've gone from jihadist samizdat – posters by guys who'll kill anybody – to over-designed posters who have no client and no audience – to posters with no human author. Gorgeous, aren't they? Wow!)))
