QR codes are ubiquitous and incredibly useful for quickly sharing small amounts of information. Although QR (short for Quick Response) codes were originally invented at a Toyota subsidiary company in ...

As well as being able to compare prices of stuff in the shops with a quick scan of the barcode/QR code, you can create artworks, as artist Scott Blake has shown with his series of famous faces. A big ...

LOS ANGELES — QR codes are on the rise. I’ve spotted them everywhere, from subway ads (yes, we have subway ads in Los Angeles) to billboards to movie posters to business cards. And so they’ve ...

Digital transformation is redefining how we experience creativity. One unexpected but increasingly valuable tool is the QR code, now widely adopted in music education, performance, and visual art ...

Boyart was intrigued by the idea of being able to connect directly with the public and to receive money for his work without going through a middleman. So, he took six months off from painting to ...

What if traditional forms of art could be more interactive? That’s exactly what Jose Torres, better known artistically as Tony Taj, wondered. Jose, a painter and mobile designer, mainly paints ...

This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

Katy Perry’s love for futuristic looks continues as she showed off a QR code body art on her palm during Paris Fashion Week. On Monday, she made a striking appearance at the Balenciaga fashion show ...

In the early 1990s, Masahiko Hara, an engineer at Denso Wave Inc., a global auto parts manufacturer that falls under the Toyota umbrella, came up with a new type of bar code that could hold ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm here to help you understand video games. First it was the Getty, and then other museums started following suit. Now, the ...

Earlier this week, an art collective “hacked” the QR codes for Kunsthaus Zurich’s exhibition of works from the collection of Emil Bührle, a German-Swiss industrialist with ties to the Nazis. QR codes ...