[dundee] Invitation

[Jennifer higgins]

That sounds... weird.

Interesting! ...and weird.

On 9 February 2010 17:03, Donna Holford-Lovell <
d.holford-lovell at abertay.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Dear All I would like to invite you along to the following:
>
>
> |||| *Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings: Julian Oliver
> *
>
> 15 February – 30 April 2010
>
> Gallery Talk 4pm - Julian Oliver talks about his work and the development
> of the open source painting package *ioquake3
> *
> Opening reception 12 February 6pm
>
> Abstract Expressionist painters have long explored strategies for
> decoupling gestural habit and tendency in their work by means of automatic
> or chance-based operations. This exhibition by Berlin based artist Julian
> Oliver represents a new strategy along this vein, deploying a computer game
> as canvas, paint and brush.
>
> The exhibition represents a major iteration of Oliver's game-based painting
> system, *ioq3aPaint*, a project that began in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia
> as part of a long career exploring artistic applications for computer game
> technology. *ioq3aPaint* is itself a modification of the source code of *
> ioquake3*, a free-software first person shooter engine used by thousands
> of gamers and game developers worldwide.
>
> Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee
> Top Floor Student Centre, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HP
> http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk
>
>
> Best Donna
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> *Donna Holford-Lovell
> Cultural Projects Officer
> *
> Institute of Arts, Media & Computer Games
> White Space, University of Abertay Dundee
> DD1 1HG. Tel: 0044 (1)382 308 777
> www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions
>
> The University of Abertay Dundee is a
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>
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