One of the works on display in the exhibition "Koksijde bouwt met LEGO® Blokjes" was inspired by the work of George Boole. We'd love to introduce him!

George Boole(1815 - 1864) laid the foundation for modern computers through his Boolean algebra. Ones and zeroes, and then adding and subtracting them... all thanks to him.

This art piece is a part of the “Science and Stones” exhibit developed with and for Technopolis. Last summer, it was on show at the Brussels Royal Palace.  The odd part about this mosaic is that it consists of a well defined series of ones and zeroes, made with LEGO® bricks. And those ones and zeroes all have a meaning. Each series of 8 stands for one letter/character, following the international ASCII Code. You can have a go at deciphering it all using the code below. And actually, there is one mistake in the text. Can you find it ? 

Code

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

01100001 01100010 01100011 01100100 01100101 01100110 01100111 01101000 01101001 01101010 01101011 01101100 01101101 01101110 01101111 01110000 01110001 01110010 01110011 01110100 01110101 01110110 01110111 01111000 01111001 01111010 00101110

T DAGB.,1',0'ESCI!

01010100 00100000 01000100 01000001 01000111 01000010 00101110 00101100 00110001 00100111 00101100 00110000 00100111 01000101 01010011 01000011 01001001 00100001

Information

This work is part of the exhibition "Koksijde bouwt met LEGO® blokjes". 

🗓 When: 1 July until 26 August (opened everyday except on Sundays) 

📍 Where: Cultuurcentrum Casino Koksijde - Casinoplein 11 - 8670 Koksijde 

🕒 Opening hours: From 10:00 until 17:30

💶 Price: Adults €7 - Kids younger than 4 have free access