Machine/Process

10 | 2006

The computer is a programmable machine that can store, retrieve, and process data. It is also a metamachine, a machine for creating virtual machines. Each time one starts a program on a computer, it is turned into a different virtual machine following different rules. These rules, a series of actions define a process. The generated machine language rules set into motion resulting in a completed piece of software, a virtual machine.

The piece employs computational algorithms to create abstract geometric animations in real-time. The result is an animated, living environment created by continuously changing dynamic graphics. Furthermore, it also reveals the invisible, elusive inner working of the real machine through the abstract representation of the flow of machine code instructions/memory accesses.

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Machine/Process
Machine/Process

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