CRUSADE
(2002)
5'x3'x4'
Keywords: Tolkien, Christ, Your Empire and Your Desktop
Crusade - a mechanical windmill desktop
spins on its axis looping a posse of medieval avengers and a MIDI sample
of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir".
GodsEye
is borrowed from the computer gaming term God's eye perspective which
positions the player as a God/General/Wizard floating above the world
- awarded total control over cities, armies and minions. GodsEyecosists
of several computer sculptures that make up a techno-/neo-medieval landscape
built around the functional hardware elements of a computer desktop environment:
keyboard, mouse, monitor, tower, etc. Formally, it draws from the subcultures
of custom computer case modifications, hardware hacking, computer game
modification and sampling.
links:
"A
Touch of Medieval" (on magic and computer games)
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Exhibition History:
FACT, Liverpool, UK
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
GodsEye, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
American Dream, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles CA
EXPLORA, Tel Aviv, Israel