Thursday, March 29, 2012

Web Intervention

For my Web Intervention project, I decided to take 6 famous historical paintings and glitch them using hex editing software, while trying to to keep the main subject of each piece intact.

I thought it was interesting that nowadays a priceless painting can be reduced to a few hundred lines of code, and because anyone is able to download an image from online, essentially I could be able to alter these famous art pieces to my liking. It was a fun challenge, and I actually saved about 12 separate images that I got just from changing the code in different ways, but these were the most successful results:

Birth of Venus (1486), Sandro Botticelli

Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso

Liberty Leading the People (1830), Joseph Delacroix

Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1519), Leonardo da Vinci

Son of Man (1964), René Magritte

Starry Night (1889), Vincent van Gogh

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