CASE : IT Pieces - Contract Core
for Cresco
Cryptography and data integrity commonly rely on the process of “hashing”. At its core, hashing is grounded in a mathematical function that takes an input and generates a fixed-size string of characters, symbolising the original data. This silent but ever-present process operates on the devices you use daily. For instance, when you input your password, it is typically hashed before being securely stored, keeping the password itself invisible but showing its representation.
The creation of the artwork “Contract Core” is driven by hashing, too.
Contract Core Visualisation
Within a website, the adept team at the law firm Cresco can effortlessly upload a finalised contract, triggering a hashing process. The resulting hash code becomes the driving force behind the emergence of a digital art piece, promptly displayed on the website. If the same text is uploaded, the identically same artwork will show. If the text file is different, an entirely different artwork will be presented.
The artwork serves as a symbolic stamp, for a prosperous collaboration. Its diverse, varying-sized and subtly distorted rings form interference patterns, resembling the convergence of disparate parties within an agreement.
Each pattern stands with the uniqueness of every business partnership. The digital artwork is framed by Cresco’s “Collaboration Model Scoring”, which is elaborated in the light of various corporate partnering situations in the book “Innovate. Collaborate. Grow!” by David Dessers / Cresco.
Cultural Confirmation Artwork
This “cultural confirmation artwork”, representing the contract, is then automatically preserved as an SVG file, serving the possibility of being 3D printed as an art object or digitally printed on silk textile as a luxurious scarf.
The work “Contract Core” epitomises the blurring boundaries of science, technology and art. The formulaic art method finds its application in adding cultural value to the seemingly mundane processes that enable cooperation between humans.
ROUTER: IT Pieces exhibition
‘CONTRACT CORE’ was part of ROUTER, An exhibition by IT Pieces / Flora Miranda, showcasing 6 data-art-fashion projects. With data stories from finance, IT, industry and research.
Credits:
Flora Miranda - Concept, Design and Garments
Kris Meeusen - Generative Design
Cresco - Contract data