Fort Paladin: America's Army (2003)
6' x 6' x 5'


Keywords: Tolkien, Christ, Your Empire and Your Desktop
Fort Paladin is a medieval computer castle automaton trained to kill and master the American army 's recruitment training game "America's Army" using elecro-mechanics and a custom written expert system.

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.



Video:

links:
Martha Schwendener - review (Artforum.com)

Kevin Temple - review (Toronto NOW)
Peter Goddard- review (Toronto Star)
"A Touch of Medieval"


download:
higher quality images (4.1 MB zip)
print quality image 5'x4'@300dpi(3.9 MB zip)

print quality image 8.5'x11'@300dpi(19 MB zip)


Exhibition History:

Media City Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The New Museum of Modern Art, NY,NY
Postmasters Gallery, NY,NY

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