Artist Statement
Players clean up the kitchen laboratory of a home biotech enthusiast using weapons such as dish cloths and egg flippers. The player is attacked by nasty mutant vegetables which are the product of genetic nouvelle cuisine, and learns throughout the game of a world wide corporate conspiracy to take over the entire food chain. Bio Tek Kitchen: a computer game patch on theme of public IP loss via biotech patenting.
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Floating territories uses a series of screen based games to explore issues of migration, border protection and asylum. The project was designed to take place on the ferry that crossed the Baltic Sea between Helsinki and Tallin at the 2004 ISEA event. A swipe card, issued to ISEA participants with the boat boarding passes arbitrarily assigns a tribal allegiance. Each tribe is represented by it's own distinctive iconography and has it's own role and goals: escape, defend, petition, colonise, wander, converge. When the player swipes their card at the computer, a game is activated that is moderated by the card's particular code.
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GGGAG is a digital poem, game, and anti-design statement. The western world's surroundings, belief systems, designed culture-games, create the built illusion of clean lines and definitive choice, cold narrow pathways of five colours, three body sizes and capsule philosophy. Within new media art the techno-filter extends these straight lines into exacting geometries and smooth bit rates. This game attempts to re-introduce the hand-drawn, the messy and illogical into the digital, via a retro-game. Hovering above and attached to the poorly drawn aesthetic is a personal examination of how we/I continually switch and un-switch our dominate belief systems. Moving from faith to real estate, from chemistry to capitalism, triggering corrected poetry, jittering creatures and death and deathless noises.
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Evidence of Everything Exploding is a game driven digital poem exploring various historical and contemporary texts. Each level's poetic content is built from the document's sub-sub texts and curious consequences. With Bill Gates' letter to the Computer Brew Club about monetizing hobby computing, we find the seeds of an empire, James Joyce is caught in an infinite loop of changing texts, Fidel Castro's boyhood letter to the US president praising America and asking for money signals an opportunistic future.
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