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Jeff Tallon
Lives and works in Toronto, ON, Canada
www.jefftallon.com
Since 2009, Jeff Tallon has been synthesizing The painted QR Code message can redirect
painting and technology. Some of his paintings participants to either a text message or URL.
include QR Codes, which allow viewers to capture This process causes the work to break with
content using a handlheld device. He publicly a 30,000 -year tradition of painting being a
displayed the first QR Code painting in Canada at passive engagement. These innovative works
the 2010 Toronto International Art Fair. engage the body, auditory canals and visual
CoUrteSy oF JaCk layton, 2013 OIL ON CANvAS 48x60 IN. | 122x152 CM.
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