On one side of the place on Century Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai, where the IDWorms crawl, a giant screen, visible from the same angle displays a kind of city landscape that perpetually grows.
At the bottom of the screen, the ground moves away like a long surface of fabric mapped with thousands of ID Codes (2D codes built out of the visitors’ face) representing people captured by the IDWorms. The visitors IDcodes have been converted into the very texture of the city. The one the city will be made of. As the IDcodes are moving away from us like a continuously growing roll of fabric, some of them are extruded from the ground, becoming cubes and volumes, converting the ground surface into a growing number of buildings. People are converted into a city that will never end growing.
Either a sculpture or a processing machine, the IDWorms are doing this very specific filtering that makes an artwork become an enlightening experience talking to the people about people.
The resulting image must give the impression that IDCodes are becoming the skyline of an ever-growing city, hiding the horizon.
|