A chance to see your work on the London Underground
The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code. We are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten's work and create your own original artwork. If we love your work it could even become the new Decode identity.
You can download and interact directly with the source code, but you do not need to be an expert coder, as Karsten has also designed a graphical user interface. For full instructions and downloads go to the Decode Google code page which also has a detailed user guide written by Karsten.
Once you're satisfied with your recoded artwork, send it to us for inclusion in our digital gallery. Send me an email (The V&A reserves the right not to display any works deemed unsuitable). If you prefer you could save your artwork as a video or still image and upload it onto Vimeo or flickr, tagging it decode09. This will allow it to feed through into our Decode Live page.
A number of the recoded works submitted to us will be chosen by the V&A and CBS to appear on London Underground digital screens to promote the exhibition. Each work used in this way will appear fully credited with the name of its artist.
The Artist shall mean the person who submits the recoded work.
Copyright will remain at all times vested with artist.
The Artist will grant to the V&A the non-exclusive royalty free right to
display the final edited artwork on the CBS London Underground Screens
for the period 18 January 2010–11 April 2010
It is the sole responsibility of the Artist to ensure that they do not
breach any intellectual property rights within any content of their
work, and so the Artist shall indemnify and keep the V&A indemnified
against all actions, proceedings, cost, claims and demands which may be
brought or made against the V&A in respect of any of the material
content within the Artist's work or infringement of copyright
perpetrated by the Artist.
The V&A Decode identity software is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. By submitting modified content you agree to also
share any source code changes done in order to comply with the license
terms. All recoded versions will be published on the Google Code
repository along with the original software.
The Artist agrees to have their artwork reproduced on the V&A website
and on CBS screens. The exhibition microsite will be held indefinitely
on the V&A website once the exhibition has closed.
The V&A will not pass on any personal data to a third party.
The Artists address details will not be published without prior consent.
The judge's decision is final.
The competition excludes employees of the V&A and CBS
No correspondence may be entered into.
If you wish your artwork to be considered for the CBS London Underground screens please read the following and tick that you are in agreement.
Please check the Terms & Conditions below to proceed to the Google Code page.
I have read the terms and conditions of entry and wish to submit my work for consideration to appear on the CBS London Underground screens and on the V&A Decode microsite
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The Artist shall mean the person who submits the recoded work.
Copyright will remain at all times vested with artist.
The Artist will grant to the V&A the non-exclusive royalty free right to
display the final edited artwork on the CBS London Underground Screens
for the period 18 January 2010–11 April 2010
It is the sole responsibility of the Artist to ensure that they do not
breach any intellectual property rights within any content of their
work, and so the Artist shall indemnify and keep the V&A indemnified
against all actions, proceedings, cost, claims and demands which may be
brought or made against the V&A in respect of any of the material
content within the Artist's work or infringement of copyright
perpetrated by the Artist.
The V&A Decode identity software is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. By submitting modified content you agree to also
share any source code changes done in order to comply with the license
terms. All recoded versions will be published on the Google Code
repository along with the original software.
The Artist agrees to have their artwork reproduced on the V&A website
and on CBS screens. The exhibition microsite will be held indefinitely
on the V&A website once the exhibition has closed.
The V&A will not pass on any personal data to a third party.
The Artists address details will not be published without prior consent.
The judge's decision is final.
The competition excludes employees of the V&A and CBS
No correspondence may be entered into.
If you wish your artwork to be considered for the CBS London Underground screens please read the following and tick that you are in agreement.
Please check the Terms & Conditions below before sending an email.
I have read the terms and conditions of entry and wish to submit my work for consideration to appear on the CBS London Underground screens and on the V&A Decode microsite
The Artist shall mean the person who submits the recoded work.
Copyright will remain at all times vested with artist.
The Artist will grant to the V&A the non-exclusive royalty free right to
display the final edited artwork on the CBS London Underground Screens
for the period 18 January 2010–11 April 2010
It is the sole responsibility of the Artist to ensure that they do not
breach any intellectual property rights within any content of their
work, and so the Artist shall indemnify and keep the V&A indemnified
against all actions, proceedings, cost, claims and demands which may be
brought or made against the V&A in respect of any of the material
content within the Artist's work or infringement of copyright
perpetrated by the Artist.
The V&A Decode identity software is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. By submitting modified content you agree to also
share any source code changes done in order to comply with the license
terms. All recoded versions will be published on the Google Code
repository along with the original software.
The Artist agrees to have their artwork reproduced on the V&A website
and on CBS screens. The exhibition microsite will be held indefinitely
on the V&A website once the exhibition has closed.
The V&A will not pass on any personal data to a third party.
The Artists address details will not be published without prior consent.
The judge's decision is final.
The competition excludes employees of the V&A and CBS
A recode of the V&A Decode ident.
It really is a complete recode - we completely remade it in C++ and using shaders. We needed the extra power, trust me.
In this new ident, the decode logo is formed from 250,000 cubes which separate, swarm and flock like tiny futuristic cuboid fish.
It runs in realtime on a (high end) consumer PC, and it's even a bit interactive.
The video shows a 512byte intro running on a ZX Spectrum. It was recorded from an emulator. "512byte" refers to the total length of the executable code that was used to create this effect. The effect was written entirely in Z80 assembler.
The intro is a remix of the signature for the V&A's Decode exhibition(1). Rather than basing my remix on their publicly available Processing code, I chose to completely recode the signature on the ZX Spectrum - the platform where I first began to explore digital art for myself.
A reverse re-strukturing of the original aav re-code re-remix submission for the V&A decode logo exhibition.
Originally made using karsten schmidts processing patch, screen grabbed and av reactivly remixed in resolume avenue then treated, graded and comp'd in after effects and finalcut pro.
The idea was to see what the animation would look like as a sketch.
There are many ways to do this and I settled with the method used by the classic NPR Quake (cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Gallery/NPRQuake/). Some duplicate VBOs, a few new textures and 2 shaders later, here is the result
