Software Art

2003 A Portrait of Netochka Nezvanova
The enigmatic online personality of Netochka Nezvanova requested people make a portrait of her. Her true identity an obscured mystery, the portrait instead focuses on her online agency and nature of consuming other peoples' media. The software artwork scans through the users hard drive and generates an ever changing montage that reflects every single activity the computer has ever been used for.

2001 Auto-Illustrator
An autogenerative parody of vector-based graphic design software, Auto-Illustrator critiques contemporary design practice by attempting to reduce creativity to mere formulae, code and plug-ins. The software, packaged and sold to graphic designers as a productivity/creativity/design enhancing tool embeds notions of authorship and authority within each and every graphic design produced using it.

Auto-Illustrator co-won the 2001 Transmediale Software Art Award, the 2001 REALbasic Cubies award, and was awarded an honorary mention at the 2001 Ars Electronica festival.

1999 Autoshop
Much like Auto-Illustrator, Autoshop is an autogenerative bitmap graphics editor that expresses issues of authorship when producing graphic designs. It features plug-ins and filters that mimic popular graphic techniques, and tools that misbehave and reappropriate the user's intentions to produce a graphic that questions how possible it is to embed creativity within software.