StarryNight

The award winning "StarryNight," is a collaboration with Martin Wattenberg and Mark Tribe. The project provides an alternative interface to the Rhizome database linking database objects as constellations in a starry night sky. "Every Image," is a screensaver that feeds off the Rhizome database to browse through text objects and icons associated with it. This work focuses on the visual effect as a network collage. The third piece was the Rhizome logo that was programmed to respond and alter to IP addresses of visitors to the site. For the main portion of evening Alex focused on his work as an artist-programmer, presenting three pieces: "Drift," (working title) "2-by-2, " and "Carnivore." "Drift" is a screensaver project, done in collaboration with his brother Munro Galloway, to be release on CD-rom. The screensaver mirror the user’s weather and daylight conditions in real-time by identifying the geographic location and time zone of the viewer. "2-by-2" is a movie series for the Nintendo GAMEBOY platform. It is a full-length feature film compressed to a duo-tone visual pattern. His largest project to date, "Carnivore," an installation artwork for computer networks using packet-sniffing technologies to create vivid depictions of raw data. The piece is named after the software used by the FBI to perform wiretaps on email. The prototype Alex has created lives on the Rhizome.org server and surveys the data passed in the office, streaming packets of information. On the client side, a selected group of artists-programmers he has been collaborating with, are developing interfaces to explore the potential "Carnivore" offers.