Digital Art

If anyone fancies a bit of culcha this 2010 I recommend popping by the V&A and checking out their Decode exhibition. A collaboration between the V&A and onedotzero, it's a collection of digitally inspired pieces, from beautiful coded designs to big interactive installations around three themes, "code", "interactivity" and "network".

My faves included a time-delay camera which creates a ghostly image of the viewer in the frame in front of them and a big visual representation of 24 hours of flight paths across the USA, quite astonishing to see how many planes are up there at any one time, and cool to see the nation wake up and start commuting, coast to coast.

And there's a chance for the public to get involved too, the museum commissioned the artist Karsten Schmidt to create an open source, malleable digital identity for the show and the public is invited to remix & recode it, with the winning versions to be shown on screens on the London Underground. More info at decode.googlecode.com

V&A Decode generative identity from postspectacular

On until the 11th April but if you go now you can also squeeze in a quick bit of ice skating down the road.