"I began to love bar codes for their sheer blatant ugliness",
says Hoberman, "And I dreamed of a totally black and white
environment, totally overrun by bar codes."
Last year,
the American artist realised his dream in the Bar Code Hotel
project. Guests of the Bar Code Hotel do indeed enter into
a colorless environment filled with innumerable bar codes.
But, in combination with a lightpen, the little black and
white bars turn out to be the ...[ more ]
