Emare residence // v2 lab
Martin Howse
Software or code is often subjugated to the demands of functionality; a
black box which performs defined tasks and whose inner workings are hidden
from view. ap exposes code as environment and environment as code, examining
and questioning the givens and layers of abstraction inherent in current
technological models, exploring new modes of systems theory with wider
consequences for contemporary culture.
ap02 presents a promiscuous model of data generation and self-display,
making use of a virtual machine architecture to develop and execute self
modifying instruction sets across networked nodes. Reconfigurable code is
interwoven with and determined by network and environmental data. Nodes
expand virally through diverse machine environments as they actively seek
for data across any network. The body of the work is code (material) and in
work this code is made evident, visible. The only functionality of ap02 is
in self display; showing its own changing, performative code as it runs.
ap02 is expressed within two interwoven projects; as physical self display
devices and as a freely available, distributed networked application.
ap02 will be presented at dasarts NL on 29th March 6pm+