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 →
Interactive. Use your mouse or finger on the picture above. Press and hold to keep the pier standing. Let go and it fades.
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 196 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 196
Originally: Hold it together by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Interactive, 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
- Interactive: Pieces that answer your pointer: stir the sea, wipe the fog, hold the pier up. In the grid a ghost cursor plays them.
- Method
- Interactive: press and hold to keep the pier standing. Let go and it fades.
- Original title
- Hold it together
- Code
- ai/fam/interactive.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. 97, by a personFaded glory, fading light · hehaden, CC BY-NC 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.