Barcode

This is my barcode.

It doesn't have my name in it, but it does have my gender, nationality, age, height, and weight (in 2008).

This is a work by Scott Blake:

Scott Blake takes barcodes and turns them into art – art that is simultaneously pop and op, intellectual and personal, minimal and ocular. Blake uses the black and white icon of our data-drenched existence to stimulate thought on topics from consumerism to religion and individual identity. He urges the viewer to consider the limitations of digitized human expression and to appropriate these symbols of commodity.

There is a whole site dedicated to Scott Blake's work on barcodes.

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