[spectre] INTERVIEW WITH PALL THAYER | CONT3XT.NET.NEWS #04.09

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THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO MICROCODES
Interview with Pall Thayer
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=1743

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"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.

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Links:
http://this.is/pallit
http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes

More interviews:
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?page_id=236

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