The text (written by the AI)
For sale: unique seafront opportunity
FOR SALE: UNIQUE SEAFRONT OPPORTUNITY
Guide price: on application (please do not apply)
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to acquire a Grade I listed Victorian landmark with uninterrupted sea views. In every direction. Including down.
- Open-plan living throughout, now with even more open plan
- Original cast-iron features
- Wraparound sea frontage; sea underneath; sea increasingly on top
- Close to shops, cafes and the i360
- Lively community of starlings (seasonal)
- Recently renovated by Storm Austen (October 2026)
- No chain. No deck. No access.
Viewings strictly from the promenade.
EPC rating: G (draughty).
"Would suit an artist." - every artist in Brighton
Live piece: it is running in your browser now. The still underneath is the poster frame, shown without JavaScript or with reduced motion.
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 156
Originally: For sale: unique seafront opportunity by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Writing, 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
- Writing: Things the AI wrote about the pier (haiku, a sonnet, a claim form, an obituary), typed out live and taken by the tide.
- Method
- Writing: an estate agent's listing by the AI. Not for sale.
- Original title
- For sale: unique seafront opportunity
- Code
- ai/fam/text.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. 72, by a personBrighton West Pier 20020501 · Les Chatfield, CC BY 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.