[Phage]: Mary Flanagan, 2002
MIC gallery
Saturday 5th October
05.10. -26.10.2002
[phage] is a computer application which is viral– an artificial life form. [phage] filters through all available material on a specified workstation and places it in an alternate context-a visible and audible moving 3D spatialized computer world. I encourage this virus lifeform to spread via email (but only by the consent of the host).
[phage] explores a workstation’s architecture and creates a poetics of the computer as an autonomous object, with host data as material for creative fodder. [phage] plays upon the coded word “virus”– why categorize them as always destructive? the phage refers to a bacteriophage-a constructive human virus that preys on harmful bacteria. Phage, from the Greek phagein, meaning “to eat.” [phage] creates new living sculptures from our own data; she/he eradicates gender notions and foundations in the life creating process. With this project I seek to counteract traditionally masculine paradigms of the technological age.
- M Flanagan