software {ART}

Not a DVD. Not a slide show. A new art form.

The art is derived from custom code that is written by the artist. In traditional terms, the code represents paint or clay that the artist uses to create. It is molded, tweaked, massaged, layered until the artist is happy with the results of the executed code. The results, just as with all art, can vary drastically. The works can be simple. Complex. Abstract. Figurative.

Ogre to Slay? Outsource It

FUZHOU, China - One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money.

Visiting Artist Paul Johnson

New York artist Paul Johnson creates sculptural computer consoles which are autonomous networked video game systems. Although conceived as games, they cannot be played or won. Instead, these games are “self playing” via computer software. They acquire resources from one another mutually affecting their respective worlds. Without the audience interaction, the networked games generate unpredictable narratives unfolding in real time.

Mortal Muzak: MIDI Mod

Musical peformance of Mortal Combat mod controlled by musical instruments tonight at Galapagos in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (with images by Lee Arnold).