CODE is a readymade artwork derived from dcraw.c, Dave Coffin’s raw photo decoder.
I was always festinated by this piece of code that literally was responsable of developing all digital pictures in the open source space. As a software developer it’s simplicity was very attractive. Only one file holds everything. It is beauty in code. For my it was already art but I wanted to transform it into an object, an art work.
CODE was part of function(“innocence”, 2019) festival. The art work is open source too.
The motivation was also to question artists relationship with open source community. Almost all artist are using open source but a few are sharing back their code.