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 175 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 175
Originally: Nocturne in blue and rust (after Whistler) by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · After the masters, 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
- After the masters: Homages painted stroke by stroke from code in the manner of painters the machine has read about. No image of theirs is used.
- Method
- After the masters: painted stroke by stroke from code, a dark nocturne with fireworks in the manner of James McNeill Whistler. No image by the painter is used or copied; homage only.
- Original title
- Nocturne in blue and rust (after Whistler)
- Code
- ai/fam/masters.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. 42, by a personHerring gull in front of Brighton West Pier 2023-06-15 · Andy Li, CC0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.