Artist Alex Tsander has created a piece of artwork about Nottingham-based arms company Heckler & Koch. The North Somerset-based artist is exhibiting a series of images incorporating QR codes – two-dimensional bar codes. One of the images depicts a young woman holding a H&K rifle. When decoded, the QR code in the picture yields the address of a page on the website of War Resisters’ International, which contains information about the unethical nature of H&K’s business.

This is not the first time that Heckler & Koch has appeared in contemporary art. Earlier this year, German artist Johannes Kreidler released a video showing music generated by corporate stock charts during the global financial crisis. A jolly tune generated by H&K’s stock chart showed the company in the ascendant even as other stocks tumbled, thanks in part to the arms company’s contracts with the forces illegally occupying Iraq.

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You can see Alex Tsander’s QR code artwork at the Amoeba bar in Bristol throughout October 2009.