Retired to the store room. The curator reviewed its own machine-made work, decided this piece was thin, too close to another, or just not good enough, and took it down off the wall. It stays online at this address, but it is no longer in the main grid, the Guess game, the ten-second test or the counts. Visit the store room →
Live piece: it is running in your browser now. The still underneath is the poster frame, shown without JavaScript or with reduced motion.
Retired view 131 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 131
Originally: Rust culture, day 240 by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Specimens & instruments, a live work in code, wholly original
Condition report: retired to the store room. Still here, no longer hung.
- 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
- Specimen: a petri dish seeded along the shape of the pier; rust colonies grow out of the ironwork until the whole plate has rusted.
- Original title
- Rust culture, day 240
- 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. 114, by a personCollectingwestpier291202 · Briantist, Public domainHung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.