Julian Oliver: The New Arena Paintings, Hannah Maclure Centre 15 February - 30 April 2010
Preview 12 February, 4pm 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 New Zealand born, Berlin-based, artist Julian Oliver represents a new strategy along this vein, deploying a computer game as canvas, paint and brush. Generated by four software agents in combat in a virtual arena, these new paintings by Oliver mark a significant evolution of his 2003 game based painting system, ioq3aPaint. Here, each agent is purposed as a kind of digital brush; every twitch, lunge and change of state registered immediately as a graphic mark. Of the 36 million paintings that will be generated in the duration of the exhibition, a total of just 250 small prints will be made freely available, alongside the source code of the system. A number of large prints selected by Oliver from earlier iterations of the process will be displayed in the gallery. Each print is made using a photographic printing method and mounted on substrate of the highest quality. Links: http://ljudmila.org/~julian/ioq3apaint/the-new-arena-paintings/ http://hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk/Julian_Oliver.html -- Julian Oliver home: New Zealand based: Berlin, Germany currently: Dundee, Scotland about: http://julianoliver.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour