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| MISPLACED RELIQUARY
2005 | Online, Browser-Based Artwork. Also exists as Physical
Installation with Gameboy Advance(GBA) and Handmade Book |
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| LAUNCH
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| Commissioned in
2004 by Rhizome.org, Misplaced Reliquary is a handheld
curiosity cabinet containing the holy relics collected by an
eccentric curator. The relics are contained within a virtual
repository taking the form of a gameboy advance ROM that can
be "played" online
and/or downloaded to any gameboy advance (with the correct
transfer hardware). An artist's edition of five game cartridges
has also been created.
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| About this work |
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Rhizome.org
announced a call for commission proposals to examine the nature of “game” art
in 2004. In response to that call, I offered that I would be interested
in examining the meaning of game as it relates to the hunt. Thus, I spent
my time in the field, walking off-trail looking, searching, hunting for
lost bits of bone, fragments of fur and other forgotten animal
relics which
are incorporated within this piece that exists both online and as a physical
installation.
The relics are contained within a virtual reliquary taking
the form of a computer file native to game cartridges for Gameboy Advance
(GBA) that can be viewed online within a browser window or downloaded
to any actual GBA hardware. In this way, the relics can be viewed online
or taken away by anyone who would like to download them, although to
view them offline requires a GBA or GBA software emulator. Accompanying
the relics are the field notes of the curator of the reliquary
that also exist within the context of a web page.
In addition to the online aspects of this work, a physical installation
also exists consisting of a GBA with the reliquary preloaded onto it
as well as a leather-bound book containing the field notes of the curator
of the reliquary. This book is composed of handset, letter pressed
type on Rives lightweight book paper; it is case bound and the book block
is covered in soft calfskin leather. Viewers are allowed to peruse both
the book and the GBA freely – as the book and the interface of
the GBA are inviting and familiar, viewers tend to inherently gravitate
toward examining both.
If you are interested in reading the original proposal submitted for
this work, this link will take you there.
If you are interested in viewing the other 2004 Rhizome.org commissions
this link will take you there.
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