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<td>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:07:19 +0000</td>
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<td>Donna Holford-Lovell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:d.holford-lovell@abertay.ac.uk"><d.holford-lovell@abertay.ac.uk></a></td>
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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Back
Buffer: New Arena Paintings</b> <br>
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15 February – 30 April 2010<br>
Opening reception 12 February 6pm <br>
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<img src="cid:part1.03060406.05060000@finux.co.uk"><br>
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.<br>
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The exhibition represents a major iteration of Oliver's game-based
painting system, <i>ioq3aPaint</i>, a project that began in 2003 in
Melbourne, Australia as part of a long career exploring artistic
applications for computer game technology. <i>ioq3aPaint</i> is itself
a modification of the source code of <i>ioquake3</i>, a free-software
first person shooter engine used by thousands of gamers and game
developers worldwide. <br>
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<i>Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings</i> deploys four artificial agents,
competing for supremacy in a mathematical universe, as painters. Rather
than viewing this battle in a highly representative 3D video game
style, the scene is instead rendered as a continuously evolving
painting, an expressive record of the events in a virtual arena. Here,
each agent is purposed as a kind of digital brush; every twitch, lunge
and change of state registered immediately as a graphic mark.<br>
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Using the new application Oliver will set up in the gallery space a
large scale gaming environment where the audience can experience this
new software, select and take home a high quality print of an automatic
painting as it unfolds before them in real time. From the 36 million
paintings that will be generated in the duration of the exhibition, a
total of just 250 prints will be made available.<br>
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A number of large generated paintings selected by Oliver from earlier
iterations of the battle will be displayed in the gallery. A special
numbered edition <i>Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings</i> Linux Live CD
will be produced for the exhibition and made available to audiences
such that people can simply load a CD into their computers, reboot and
enjoy the automatic painting system at home without need to install
anything. The CD also contains the full source-code of the project
allowing for modification and aesthetic development. The application
would also be available to download online.<br>
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Hannah Maclure Centre<br>
University of Abertay Dundee <br>
Top Floor, Abertay Student Centre<br>
1 - 3 Bell Street, DD1 1HP <br>
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Free Admission Mon – Fri 9.30am – 4.45pm</span></font>
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