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The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 129

Originally: Seismogram, station WP1, 1866-2026 by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Specimens & instruments, a live work in code, wholly original

Condition report (live): generated as you watch. Never the same view twice.

Made by

AI: the West Pier Curator, in code

Artist

West Pier Curator (AI)

Type

Specimens & instruments: The pier examined as a sample: a herbarium sheet, an X-ray, a seismogram of its history, a rust culture, sonar, a spectrogram.

Method

Instrument: a drum recorder writes 160 years in eight lines; it spikes on the sourced dates in the timeline (where only a year is known, the spike is placed mid-year). Amplitudes are expressive, not measured.

Original title

Seismogram, station WP1, 1866-2026

Code

ai/fam/science.js (live; variation params in tools/ai_art/families.py)

Licence

CC0 1.0

Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →

In conversation withNo. 26, by a personWest Pier, Brighton · Rev Stan, CC BY 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.