When was the last time you saw a QR a code? If you have walked into a Tube station recently or if you have opened a magazine, you surely will have spotted at least a couple. QR (quick response) codes are used to facilitate the interaction with the digital world: they are a rapid access to the potential of your smartphone.
Whether these little black and white boxes should be used or not when they fight with an advert's graphics, that is Pandora's box.
We can point out though that they can become beautiful and meaningful things. Scott Blake created this portrait of Amy Goodman using the staggering amount of 2,304 QR codes.
The image is surprisingly detailed and the codes actually take the viewers to a nine year span of Democracy Now!, Amy's independent news program. We think that this makes the portrait a proper symbol: not only for the likeliness of the person featured, but for representing her life's work as well.
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