Tom Gibara’s Moseycode: a new mobile barcode, supports a z-axis
Peter Evers writes about Tom Gibara’s Moseycode a new mobile barcode that supports a z-axis. Watch the video (which relies on Google’s Android…)
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Tom Gibara says…
… [of th PC] there are intrinsic limits to the spatio-kinetic enjoyment you can extract from them with a keybeord and mouse.
… these latent influences fused on the day I browsed the Android package list. It gave me an easily accessible platform that offered me something of everything I wanted.
I decided to build a system that was both physical and digital, one in which the artifacts are part atoms and part bits. I decided on a dichotomy of portals which are physical doorways into chambers, virtual repositories created by others.
The portals are barcodes that can have all those sticky qualities: print them onto parcels, stick them on walls, leave them in waiting rooms. More than that, the process of viewing them is is intended to be primarily physical. They are things you can pick up and manipulate; they aren’t limited to merely redirecting you to some webpage.
The chambers are manifests that anyone can create: use them to bundle pictures, sound, video and data. All of which sits waiting to be released when someone opens an associated portal. Chambers have that mutable impermanent quality that digital content has, they can be endlessly added to and modified.
A central authority publishes the associations between of portals and chambers. The location services provided by modern devices make it possible to track where each portal is activated and to compile the information: find out where and when portals where opened.