Artist James Hoff's latest series, Skywiper, integrates code from government-created malware. This one uses data from the NSA-created software Stuxnet.

Other images in the series like this one use code from the NSA-created spyware tool Flame, also known as Skywiper, a name Hoff has also used for the image series.

Hoff's method involves reducing a pre-created image to text with a hex editor and then "corrupting" the file with random chunks of malware code.

When he reconstituted the image including the malware "glitches," they included static, streaks and blotches of color.

Hoff says he's more interested in the uncontrollable effects of adding virus code into his art than in the political aspect of government-sponsored cyberwarfare creations like Stuxnet, whose code this image uses.

“I don’t think of viruses as good or bad. To me, they’re just agents,” he says. “I just want to pull that element into the work. It allows for that kind of reflection, both on a conceptual level and an aesthetics level. The actual code is embedded in the image you see.”