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[Arron M Finnon]

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Subject: 	[T-list] Exhibition Opening
Date: 	Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:07:19 +0000
From: 	Donna Holford-Lovell <d.holford-lovell at abertay.ac.uk>
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*Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings*
 
15 February – 30 April 2010
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.

/Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings/ 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.
 
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.

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 /Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings/ 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.
 

Hannah Maclure Centre
University of Abertay Dundee
Top Floor, Abertay Student Centre
1 - 3 Bell Street, DD1 1HP
<http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk/index.html>  

Free Admission Mon – Fri 9.30am – 4.45pm

-- 
Arron "finux" Finnon

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