The Source Code Oracle

The Source Code Oracle is an interactive installation inviting its audience to create a unique and personal destiny card. The cards can only be produced only by a visitor’s act of pressing the button, which generates a graphic representation of an algorithm based on ten symbols. Each symbol represents an action or a stage in the life of the card owner. The symbols are identified by color, material, stage in life, and are individually associated with shamanism. The Source Code Oracle merges ancient knowledge such as I Ching, shamanism, and Zen Buddhism, with contemporary algorithms and code-based generative design. The Oracle introduces a new ritual that creates a huge amount (70,000,000) of graphic objects, all of which are generated by the source code, but each carries its own meaning. The machine is a portal to the techno-mystical works created for the project.

 

 

Ofir Liberman

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