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Banksy’s QR Code

Roger — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:17:31 +0000

The rarely seen internationally famous street artist Banksy has completed murals in a disused railway tunnel near Waterloo Station in London, UK. One is a large image of a knife wielding hoodie with a small QR Code which decodes to Banksy’s entry in Wikipedia.

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Banksy's QR Code

QR Code on Harrods Poster

Roger — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:18:32 +0000

QR Codes are being used in a Harrods poster (see full post for image) to advertise their Design Icons exhibition. Leaflets and posters containing the code are being distributed to students at art, design and architectural schools in London. The QR Code decodes to a TinyURL which takes you to a mobile site with more information about the event and a competition.

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QR Code on Harrods Poster

Animated QR Code Builder

Roger — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:59:08 +0000

An amusing way to produce a QR Code for a url has appeared on the Cross Borders website. An army of animated stick men carrying black squares assemble your QR Code while you watch!

Update: A second version.

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Animated QR Code Builder

Manchester Art Gallery QR Codes

Roger — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:35:12 +0000

Manchester Art Gallery is trialling QR codes in its Remembering Slavery: Revealing History display. From 1-29 March visitors will be able to use their mobile phones to retrieve specially designed web pages. The pages invite visitors to submit comments on six works on show, and listen to and read poems and comments on some of the objects. More information on the display here.

Julian Tomlin (a freelance consultant who is undertaking a review of machine-readable technologies in museums) has extended an open invitation to go to the Gallery on Mosley Street, Manchester on Saturday 1 March when there will be advisors on hand to offer guidance and discuss your thoughts on this emerging technology.

leads to here (click)

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Manchester Art Gallery QR Codes

Street Art, QR Codes and Google Maps.

Roger — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:08:25 +0000

The voice of the street have provided a service for street artists. Combining street art, QR codes and Google Maps the service allows street artists to communicate with the viewer and visa versa. More on this video…

The Voice of the Street from Leif on Vimeo.

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Street Art, QR Codes and Google Maps.

Edible QR Code

Roger — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:30:03 +0000

The three chefs, Ferran Adrià of El Bulli in Girona, Spain, Thomas Keller of Per Se in New York and Seiji Yamamoto of Nihonryori Ryugin in Roppongi, Tokyo, all have at least two things in common (apart from badly designed websites).

Firstly these three are leading the revolution in science based cooking and secondly they all have restaurants that are virtually impossible to get into because they are so heavily booked.

They are experts in food science techniques like cryovacking (food is put into a plastic bag and vacuum packed under extreme pressure) and liquid nitrogen seems to be an essential in their kitchens.

However Seiji Yamamoto has excelled himself by silk-screening a bar code onto a plate using a paste of squid ink, red miso and poached egg yolk. This picture (from the Japan Times) shows a candy apple filled with nitrogen-frozen ice cream and the QR code on the plate is the url of the restaurant.

Here is the QR code in close-up courtesy of Chow.

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Edible QR Code

QR Art at Abbey Maubuisson

Roger — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:26:05 +0000

Olga Kisseleva is an established Russian artist (with a Ph.D. from St Petersburg University). Her current exhibition at the Abbey Maubuisson, France features QR codes that lead the visitor to a large tag-sculpture, mosaic mirrors and black plates.

The QR code in this mosaic mirror (image via poptronics )when decoded reads “L’ideologie, c’est ce qui pense a votre place” which is a quotation from Jean-François Revel, one of the leading French philosophers of the 20th century. In English it translates as “The ideology is what you think”.

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QR Art at Abbey Maubuisson

First QR Code in Scotland

Roger — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:24:44 +0000

The National Galleries of Scotland have been advertising their Andy Warhol exhibition with a poster containing a QR code.

The code when viewed on a QR enabled mobile phone reads http://totalart.mobi/warhol.

If you go to the site you will see this:

Win a Warhol Goody Bag

There’s not much time left to see the Bank of Scotland totalArt:Andy Warhol exhibition. This fantastic experience closes on 7 October.

This is your chance to see the largest collection of Andy Warhol work ever exhibited in Scotland. Even now, twenty years after his death, Warhol continues to be one of the most prolific and contentious artists of the 20th century.

Tickets are available to buy at the National Galleries Complex or online at www.nationalgalleries.org.

Get more information on opening times and ticket prices from our information line, just call 0131 332 2266.

Win a Warhol Goody Bag

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First QR Code in Scotland