In my haste to post about last night’s event (I’m a bad blogger), I forgot to mention the interactive art work presented by Barnsley artist Jo Pearson.
Jo based her work on the iChing – instructions at the table told us how to cast an iChing hexagram relating to a question we had in mind. We then matched the number of the hexagram to a set of QR codes displayed around the walls and – get this – used the bar code readers on our phones to translate the QR code into a web link. Connecting to the link took you to a reading and gave you the opportunity to post your reaction to the reading – reactions were displayed on the large screen in the DMC foyer.
As always with interesting art, it’s hard to do it justice in words. But I don’t think any of us ever expected to use the bar code reader on our smartphone to read our fortunes!
You can follow Jo @jopersona. If you don’t know what QR codes are all about, have a look here: http://2d-code.co.uk . And you can make your own codes here: http://www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code/generator .
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