Alison MEALEY

[UK] ~ 1980

alisonmealey.com/

“30 mins” ~ 2005

Digital print on canvas

Collezione Lucio Chiappa, Milan / Courtesy Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia

“30 mins” ~ 2005
“30 mins” ~ 2005
Unreal Art, involves persuading about 20 ‘divine bots’ from a game-level of the popular first person shooter Unreal Tournament, that the paths she has created on the map “are a good direction in which to walk”. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. The map she has drawn retraces the fundamental features of a human face, which becomes the reference point for the bots to roam around, within the level. Through software written in Processing, Mealey associates forms and colours to the bots’ path that refer to the chromatic material of the underlying image. Depending on how much the bots respect her indications, the result will be more or less faithful to the initial picture.

Mealey was a researcher at FACT in Liverpool. She lives and works in Huddersfield.