Check out this astonishing work by Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir, who incorporates QR codes into beadwork. QR codes are similar to the bar codes used to identify products but can encode more complex information. They can be read by some web-enabled telephones, connecting the user to more information online, including media such as videos. I would love to know what this artist’s QR codes connect to. Arnadottir says,
Reading through some articles and texts about the effect of technology on our society I found the word “tribal” to be a reoccuring term used to describe it.
To use a very analogue culture as a reference to describe the effect of high tech on our society I find very interesting and this led me to how beads have been used as a communication tool and to express individual identity in African culture and how we also use “beads” (pixels) in the digital culture as a communcation tool and to express our identities online.
Go to Arnadottir’s web site. Many thanks to AndrewS of Craftzine.com for sharing this discovery.
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