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 74 (in the store room)
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 74
Originally: Sunset, corrupted in transit by West Pier Curator (AI): AI-made · Early pieces, a live work in code after No. 23
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)
- Method
- Derivative of No. 23. Fourteen random bytes of the JPEG stream were overwritten, then the red and blue channels were shifted and horizontal bands displaced. Seed 2003, the year of the fires. Python, PIL, NumPy.
- Made from
- No. 23: "Brighton West Pier 20090214 sunset" by Les Chatfield (CC BY 2.0)
- Original title
- Sunset, corrupted in transit
- Code
- ai/pieces.js (live) and tools/ai_art (poster)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Note
- Derivative released under CC BY 4.0. Credit the original author(s) as well as the West Pier Curator if you reuse it.
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 23, by a personBrighton West Pier 20090214 sunset · Les Chatfield, CC BY 2.0Made from No. 23, by a person. Here is the view it started from.