Coderush is a limited edition series
of 6 digitally manipulated photo collages, based on
"binary dream coderush", an image from a web art
piece called, "Electric Dreams, Binary Desire",
May 1998. Techno-seduction is the theme. My binary
affinity and my long-term relationship with computer code
is expressed through these self portraits. The
"coderush" series was created for "Soul of
the Machine", the Bromfield Gallery’s cyberarts
group show.
1. genetic coderush
The matrix, or mother, wears the lacey
crown of creation as double helixes and delicate DNA
formulas are collaged with skeletons and Hatshepsut, one
of few women to be crowned pharaoh of Egypt. Hieroglyphic
code links us to the past. DNA falls from a skeleton’s
hands, symbolizing the life cycle and our common genetic
history and basic structure with DNA, in essence
"code", at our core. Code gives us life. We have
always been naturally and deeply related to code.
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2. binary dream coderush
How to explain??? It’s about desire to
blend body and code in multiple ways, while fractal
topographies shift virtual registers in rhythmic waves...
To be one with the binary mesh; to be with others via
code. This image is the start-up file for the series.
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3. coderush logic
These simple logic circuits are within the
core of each computer; the foundation of binary machines.
At the base of the binary dream is pure code for electron
flow, in bits of 0 or 1. Within the binary dream, we can
explore an infinity of faces.
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4. coderush mediation
The keyboard is yet another code.
Meta-code that defines and links the human computer
interface. Even before the mouse, the keys invite our
touch. Keyboard adaptation includes function keys, and
short-cut keys, like those in the image, e.g. screenal
control code.
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5. enter, escape, coderush
Cyberspace, the great escape, comes with
the invitation of enter, escape and home at our
fingertips. Home, a familiar space, is echoed in
hieroglyphs, and reduced to a navigational keystroke. For
some of us, cyberspace IS home. HTML for "binary
dream coderush" jumps off the keyboard as my window
dressing. Better living thru cyberspace.
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6. binary flesh coderush
The best of the master codeslingers
effortlessly think in elegant algorithms and rapidly type
error free fully functional code. But the ultimate
coderush is to watch the computer execute the code
yielding the expected result on the initial run. It’s as
if the user interface is no longer needed. Flesh becomes
an extension of the technology. This image is the cover
artwork for the April issue of Boston Software News.
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