Socrates EthiCS Mosaic

Socrates’ EthiCS

A mosaic portrait of the great ancient Greek philosopher Socrates for the special issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine covering the important issue of “Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Broadly Across CS Education”. 

The special issue of Communications of the ACM was about embedding ethics across computer science education, so the portrait is of Socrates, the ancient Athenian who made ethics a method of questioning. He is built from code, which puts the philosopher of ethics inside the computer science classroom.

Client: Communications of the ACM, 2019. Subject: ethics, education, history.

This work uses the method described in Algorithmic Mosaic. More work of this kind: Applications · Editorial Illustration. The fragments here are characters, not images. See how the method works.

Socrates mosaic portrait

The Communications of the ACM magazine cover 2019