USS
DRAGOON (2003)
"One
God to Rule Them All...And in the Darkness Bind Them"
10'
x 5' x 4'
Keywords: Tolkien, Christ, Your Empire and Your Desktop
USS Dragoon: One God to Rule Them All...And
in the Darkness Bind Them - An Elvin class computer aircraft carrier
prepared for battle with an on-deck army of knights and dragons.
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)
download:
print
quality images (7.1 MB)
higher_quality_stills(31 MB)
video:
3.8MB
Quicktime
exhibition history:
FACT, Liverpool, UK
Katoennatie Museum (permanent collection), Ghent, Belgium
Postmasters Gallery, NY, NY