BarcodePoetry (2016) is a selfpublishing project. The lyrics of each poetry are divided into blocks & encoded in the different barcodes to compose a concrete visual poem. The plan was to sell each code individually. Collectors could compose their own poem. Collecting as "cadavre exquis".

Poetry encoded into Barcodes —> Aztec Code,Data Matrix, QR Code, Codablock, Grid Matrix, Code One.

Each piece of barcode has poetry lyrics encoded in it. Each artwork is a poem. I have written the lyrics when I was living in UK and Spain. You are invited to discover the lyrics by interacting with the images through a Barcode reader app on your mobile phone.

All of the codes together form abstract geometrical compositions, the sort of concrete art, minimal black and white interactive augumented digital art.

The discovering of the lyrics places you, the viewer, in an active experience of the works where you are required to unveil a sort of mystery and also reveal the emotions related to the stories the lyrics tell.

The poetry are mostly all based on real life experiences, not fiction, about life, romances, affairs, broken heart, joy and sorrow. In this way you get to know more about my feelings and lived life, building empathy and getting involved with the art on an emotional level.

Also, the artworks suggest in you a sort of intrigue and excitment about the act of spying into the artist's diary of life. Some of the lyrics will stay untold because some of the codes will not be decoded as there are not apps available for smartphone to read them, leaving with you with missing parts of the stories where you will be induced in imagining what is missing and what could have been written.

So the interaction is based, and happens, on technical support, the smartphone app, but also immagination, human mind.

The work is biographic, the passage from my shift from more classical art, poetry writing, to new media.