The interactive paintings, Tagging (Static - Dynamic - Centric), by Aram Bartholl are his latest work which employes Semacode Datamatrix’s.

Each image shows an individual black and white pattern which has been painted manually with an edding 850. These patterns have been created by a special software on a computer. It is possible for any visitor to decode each “Semacode” by using a standard camera phone…Semacode makes it posssible to encode a specific amount of data within the pixel pattern. This string of data can be decoded from an image taken by the camera phone afterwards…For the users it serves as a tool to get simple access to websites on a mobile phone. Equiped with the software the user navigates to websites by just taking a photo of a semacode which has the specific webadress encoded.

The three Datamatrix paintings contain urls. The first Static links to a quote by Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA, the natural language processing chatter bot; “Knowledge does NOT become unnecessary by the Internet!”. The second, Dynamic, links to the photo pool of the Institute of Electronic Business on Flickr. While the third links to the place of the IEB on Plazes, a location based communication platform.

Original seen at networked_performance.