In UPC E/Bill Gates/Clipped I increased the value scale by adjusting the height of the bars in each bar code. In the lightest bar codes only the human readable numbers remain. This portrait is about making technology transparrent.

Date Created - December 19, 2000

Physical Dimensions - 50 x 50"
(127 x 127 cm)

Pixel Dimensions - 10600 x 10600

Pixels Per Inch - 212 ppi

File Size - 21.6 Megabytes

Color Mode - Grayscale

File Format - Photoshop Flattened

Individual Bar Code
Physical Dimensions
- 1 x 1/2"
(2.54 x 1.27 cm)

Individual Bar Code
Pixel Dimensions
- 212 x 106

Bar Codes Generated - 1792

Number of Bar Codes Wide - 50

Number of Bar Codes High - 100

Total Bar Codes
in Final Image
- 5000

Font - OCR B

Hardware - Power Macintosh G3
300 MHz with 192 MB RAM

Software - Mac OS 8.1
Adobe Photoshop 5.02
Microsoft Excel 98


UPC E/Bill Gates

UPC E/Bill Gates/Clipped

UPC E/Bill Gates/Clipped