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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen02a.png|is opened and resaved in a text editor
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen02a.png|is opened and resaved in a text editor
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen02b.png|producing a lossy re-interpretation
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen02b.png|producing a lossy re-interpretation
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen03.png|to be opened, and transformed by screenshot, and then doodled on by an online image editor
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen03.png|to be opened again, producing a new "misintepretation" as text, captured as a screenshot, then uploaded and doodled upon by an online image editor (http://pixlr.com)
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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen04gimp.png|Now opened in Photoshop text added on a layer and saved...
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen04gimp.png
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen04exif.png|Looking at the file's metadata reveals that Adobe Photoshope CS4 Windows has touched the file
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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen05gimp.png|More layers added...
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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen05exif.png|More metadata, this time describing the changes as Photoshop 7.
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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen06html.png|Now the image is wrapped in an HTML file with javascript
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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen06chrome.png|But the browser refuses to display the PSD format.
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File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen07convert.png|A simple ImageMagick command to convert PSD to PNG, results in a surprise, each layer from the PSD file is output as a separate image.
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen07firefox.png|The adjusted HTML now shows one of the resulting png files.
File:DigitalCadavreExquisGreen07firefox.png|The adjusted HTML now shows one of the resulting png files.
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=== GOLD stick ===
=== GOLD stick ===
[[File:DigitalCadavreExquisGold00.png]]
A gray square becomes a multicolored movie.

Latest revision as of 15:50, 17 September 2013

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Based on the Cadavre exquis, a digital equivalent exploring a digital pipeline of varying work practices and software platforms.

The Rules

The first person starts in one of two ways: (1) By opening an empty canvas in their tool/application and creating a simple initial document, or (2) selecting a free-licensed work from a given source (for instance Open Clip Art, Librivox, or the Mediawiki Commons). The file is saved with a number + the persons name and the stick is passed to the next person. Each subsequent receiver of the stick opens the last numbered file and opens it in the tool of their choice, adding "their mark" and saving the file again as the next numbered file and passing it on.

Ideas for a next time

  • It would make sense to make screenshots at each stage and collect these (though not necessarily pass them on the stick as these wouldn't (necessarily) be the same as the data file that one passes (though in some cases a screenshot may become the primary object).

Results from 16 Sep 2013

GREEN stick

GOLD stick

DigitalCadavreExquisGold00.png

A gray square becomes a multicolored movie.