----- ----- ----- THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO MICROCODES Interview with Pall Thayer http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=1743
----- ----- ----- "My medium is the code. (...) The viewer's medium can be something else." As simple as Pall Thayer's statement is, as strict is its execution within the series of so called Microcodes the Reykjavik-based artist started to develop in early 2009. Each Microcode is a fully contained work of art, the conceptual meaning of which is revealed through a combination of the title, the code, and finally the results of running it on a computer. Perceived from a literal/literary point of view, Pall Thayer's Microcodes can be understood as an extension and transgression of textuality in the digital realm: Perl-codes which are readable as short poems in natural language as well as readable in the sense of executable programmes. Once executed, the codes also draw conceptual strenght from their clearly identitifiable relations to art historical predecessors such as Andy Warhol, On Kawara, Kazimir Malevich and to themes and movements such as modernist monochromacity, ready-mades, or timebased conceptualism. In the interview by CONT3XT.NET Pall Thayer talks about his decisions to choose Perl as programming language for Microcodes, about his attemps to communicate the conceptual background of his artworks to Internet-users who are not necessarily coders and finally about the understanding of Microcodes which "comes entirely from the viewer's persepective and whatever previous understanding or knowledge they have" - a perspective which is definitely worth to be taken up. ----- ----- ----- Links: http://this.is/pallit http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes More interviews: http://cont3xt.net/blog/?page_id=236 ----- ----- ----- This is a newsletter by CONT3XT.NET (ZVR: 999765999, Vienna/Austria). If you do not want to receive information anymore please reply with "NO newsletter". _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
