Poetics of Code: part 1, John F. Simon, Jr. and Eduardo Kac

Streaming Museum launched an international tour of "The Poetics of Code" series on March 15, 2010, with artwork by pioneer contemporary artists - "HD Traffic" by John F. Simon, Jr. and "Lagoglyphs" by Eduardo Kac.
The series focuses on artists who are using computer programming as a type of creative writing, and the infinite expressive potential of computer languages. Code is at the core of these works as both method of creation and meaning.
In "HD Traffic" Simon built with software code a Mondrian-inspired work designed to integrate real-time traffic data flow. Kac's series of lagoglyphs artworks, reference and expand upon his controversial genetically altered Alba the GFP Bunny (2000). The real-time animations, continuously flowing and reconfiguring themselves, place emphasis on the generative mutability of writing and the encoded nature of life.