xxxxx, the crash that dare not speak its name. Crash is the executable's exposure, magic and revelation; the dulled and modern encounter with an edge of world as simulation, as broken and crashing interface.
xxxxx initiates and investigates the speculative realm of expanded software, a further expression of environmental code. Expanded software, a study of process and description, is both an abstraction and embeds notional abstractions or ideas in relation to the reduced domain of necessarily speculative software. All is interface, exploring a line between internal automation and GUI determinism. Human incision for human projectiles. Assigned trajectory.
xxxxx marks a new phase for artistic group ap/1010.co.uk, a new stage in the logical operations of shamanic code on the no media of new media. ap was founded in 1998 to necessitate the code-terms expansion implied by a growing and politically active free software movement. With wilfully avant-garde intent, and through intervention, performance, staged events, hardware constructions and readily accessible software, ap interrogated in live process the borderland of control; exercises across software culture and history implicating fascism, destruction and melancholia. Software as substance. Performances ranged across international venues and festivals with further projects elaborating networked environmental code-creation machines, a language for the streamed entry of endless cinema and the development of promiscuOS, a totally untethered and highly promiscuous operating system. ap recently received the prestigious first prize of the Art & Artificial Life VIDA 8.0, 2005, again with an environmental and slow computational work, entitled ap0201.
xxxxx articulates a new interdisciplinary space for no media with all that is implied by the computational revolution in art; the executable's song, noise in relation to possible formations and absolute destruction embedded like some hiroshimic easter egg within the history of computation.