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"
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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