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 151 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 151
Originally: ASCII, from memory by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Typography, 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
- Typography: The pier as letters: typed out of a phrase, rained on by type, spelled in Morse, losing its kerning to the sea.
- Method
- Typography: the whole scene as live ASCII, drawn from code rather than from a photograph.
- Original title
- ASCII, from memory
- Code
- ai/fam/typo.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. 54, by a personBrighton west pier · house of bamboo, CC BY-NC 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.