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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dear All I would like to invite you along to the following:<BR>
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|||| <B>Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings: Julian Oliver <BR>
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15 February – 30 April 2010<BR>
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Gallery Talk 4pm - Julian Oliver talks about his work and the development of the open source painting package <I>ioquake3<BR>
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Opening reception 12 February 6pm <BR>
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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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Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee<BR>
Top Floor Student Centre, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HP<BR>
<a href="http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk">http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk</a><BR>
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Best Donna <BR>
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<B>Donna Holford-Lovell <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#7E7E7E">Cultural Projects Officer <BR>
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White Space, University of Abertay Dundee<BR>
DD1 1HG</FONT><FONT COLOR="#7E7E7E">. Tel: 0044 (1)382 308 777<BR>
www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions <BR>
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The University of Abertay Dundee is a <BR>
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