BINARY PORTRAITS

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The Binary Portraits fine art series consists of art historical portraits rendered in binary code. My desire to blend the great masters’ work with the technology of today has given me the opportunity to use computer code as the medium in reproducing some of the most important works of art. With these pieces I attempt to use a different form of representation in the making of art—a kind of hybrid form, not quite digital art but no longer of a traditional nature. By removing the visual qualities of the original painting I am at the same time creating a new aesthetic sensibility of the work.

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The final product, as exhibited in the New Jersey Arts Annual at the Montclair Art Museum, is a 16 x 20 inch photo print of binary code in 4 point type. Each of these pieces contain over 200,000 characters which are the binary translation of the original images.