UPC/Andy Warhol/Campbell's Soup

This is my Barcode Andy Warhol portrait made with 2,160 barcodes. I used the UPC barcodes from Campbell's Soup cans that were part of Warhol's iconic screenprints. I even curved the barcodes to mimic the cylindrical shape of soup cans. I also created an augmented reality interface to go along with the portrait, so when a barcode is scanned, a video projector lights up the corresponding soup can and dumps virtual soup into a bowl. I added a simple game which is activated by scanning the barcodes in sequence from Tomato all the way around to Clam Chowder. The mosaic includes several hidden "Easter Egg" barcodes. For instance, one plays a special clip of Warhol eating a hamburger and another shows David Bowie playing Warhol in the movie Basquiat. Laser Print on Paper with Barcode Scanner for $495 96 x 96 inches (243.8 x 243.8 cm) Print Information Buy a Flipbook for $5 Postcard .95¢ Date Created - November 2002 Date Updated - September 2010 Image Dimensions - 96 x 96 inches (243.84 x 243.84 cm) Pixel Dimensions - 28,800 x 28,800 Pixels Per Inch - 300 ppi File Size - 186.2 Megabytes File Format - Photoshop Barcodes Generated - 14 Total Barcodes in Final Image - 2,160 Hardware - MacPro G4 Tower 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Xeon 4 GB RAM Software - Mac OS 10.6 Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe Illustrator CS4 Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Microsoft Excel 11 Mozilla Firefox 3

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