The blue/black or white/gold dress.jpg • Enter The Machine 3.0 • Portraits of Famous Files

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Everyone on the Internet in 2015 had an opinion on whether “the dress” was black and blue or white and gold, making it one of the first memes to achieve worldwide virality

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at web.archive.org/web/20150227014959/http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and

Photograph of a woman’s dress that is either blue and black or white and gold depending on how one sees color, against a blurred out yellow-ish white background — The original dress photo posted to Tumblr

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Subject Creation Date

02/27/2015

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105,996 bytes (106 KB)

Subject Location

web.archive.org/web/20150227014959/http://swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and

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1 File

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JPG

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Individual

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Screenshot of a series of flat, radial, zebra-striped lines on the right side of the image and concave, radial, zebra-striped lines (in perspective) on the left side of the image, inside the center of which lies an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels — Portrait detail

Screenshot of a series of flat, radial, zebra-striped lines on the bottom side of the image and concave, radial, zebra-striped lines (in perspective) on the top side of the image, inside the center of which lies an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels — Portrait detail

Screenshot of a series of zoomed in flat, radial, zebra-striped lines on the left side of the image and concave, radial, zebra-striped lines (in perspective) on the right side of the image, inside the center of which lies an algorithmically generated small mass of organically shaped grayscale pixels — Portrait detail

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Documentation of this internet-native artwork is stored permanently on blockchain should future changes in web-based technologies affect how it displays.

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video/quicktime

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1296 x 2304

Duration

1'00

Transaction

viewblock.io/arweave/tx/7vKOTggAkH2IgsVUuLBPwCBScYvwyK7xzJRexuytULI

Artist

Eric Corriel

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