My selection for digital code work doesn't literally depict code (intentionally), but rather uses javasript and html to significantly change the work of literature for the reader.

Upon loading "Blue Hyacinth," text written by Pauline Masurel and coded by Jim Andrews, the text seems like a normal story, broken up into four separate parts. Each part coded in a different shade of blue.

The work employs hover span tags, so that when the user hovers their mouse over a part of the text, it begins to merge the stories together, changing the meaning and structure.

The structure can be stretched out into what looks like a dialogue, or it can be shrunk down into a smaller block paragraph.

The changing text is hard to control, let alone understand, but this is the effect Jim Andrews intended for Pauline Masurel's work.

On a blog critique of the work, he had this to say in the comment section, "The behavior is slightly adversarial and gives rise to the feeling that the behavior has some sort of character (worth mistrusting and being suspicious of). As though it has something to hide, possibly. Although it is busy revealing, also, and has to hide some things to reveal others."

I think this goes along with many of the concepts we have been discussing thus far, the ability for code to conceal and remain invisible to the user, as well as the ability to reveal deeper meaning.

In the source code of Blue Hyacinth, Jim gives a thank you for suggestions on making the code more compatible for multiple browsers. I found this interesting because the work was not supposed to show the actual code, but in my viewing (and flailing of my mouse trying to shape the text and change the story), Firefox was unable to render some of the code that supposed to leave space, but not break up lines.

So the code was obviously behind the work, but in an unintentional circumstance, the code became visible, but only until I hovered some more.