"Many authors and artists working in electronic media are exploring the concept of codework, interrogating the nature of digital artifacts as products of multilayered transcription beneath the surface level of the computer screen. Without using any words, Beiguelman's Code Movie 1 treats the hexadecimal code of JPG images as a signifier in its own right.
Author description: Code Movies are made with hex, ASCII, and
binary codes extracted from JPG images. Saved as simple text, they are
reworked and edited in Flash. They are part of a larger project I've
been working on since 2004 (//**Code_UP). The submitted work (Code Movie 1)
is made of hexa code. The project interrogates the role of the code in
meaning construction and the new forms of translations that digital
languages embody. It questions: Now that the Cybertext confuses itself
with the notion of Place (a web address, for example) and that Image
only reveals itself through a 'hyperinscription' (a URL), can we think
in a poetics of transcodification between media and file formats? Can we
keep talking about 'WYSIWYG' utopias? How does it affect our ways of
reading, seeing, and perceiving?" -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1