Every
Icon
John Simon, 1997
Links
taken
from John's site
Given:
An icon described by a 32 X 32 grid.
Allowed:
Any element of the grid to be colored
black or white.
Shown:
Every icon.
Josh:
It's interesting because although I had seen this done in other contexts,
it's the first time I saw it being called an "artists proof" and
I think that makes a difference. It also makes a difference that Simon
continues to
make strong work before and after this piece.
John:
It basically counts forward, from 0 to 10 to the 308th power. The
number of atoms in the universe is 10 to the 80th. The number of
possible images
in the
universe
is much greater. I use a 32 X 32 black and white grid. I chose that,
because that was the original Macintosh definition for an icon, when
the first
Mac system came out. With the old Macs, you went to the icon editor "ResEdit",
where you could design you own icons by clicking on the different fields
of this grid. [from here]
Submitted
by
Josh Nimoy << Back
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