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 177 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 177
Originally: The great wave off Brighton (after Hokusai) 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 woodblock-style wave in the manner of Katsushika Hokusai. No image by the painter is used or copied; homage only.
- Original title
- The great wave off Brighton (after Hokusai)
- 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. 2, by a personThe West Pier, Brighton · Spencer Gore, Public domainHung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.