Shirley Bassey Mixed Up (2006) is a generative art work – more accurately an experimental illustrated networked generative biography, covering the ups and downs of her life, successes and tragedies. The illustrations are network generated, built dynamically from Yahoo searches, and combined dynamically with my own drawings. Through specifying different searches and playing with the customisation options, readers can create a unique illustration for each page of the story, resulting in their own personalised version of the biography.
Pulling in data from the Internet and manipulating/ transforming it within a story, this work can be arguably be described as a networked narrative.
Unfortunately the project isn’t working properly right now, as PHP has been updated, and I will need to re-write the code.