Pall Thayer vient présenter son travail artistique à partir de code de programmation informatique.
Pall Thayer is an Icelandic/American artist who works with computer programming code as an artistic medium. He studied visual arts at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, the Helsinki Academy of Art and received his MFA in Open Media at Concordia University, Montreal in 2008. He has been active within the computer based art scene since the late 90's. He has exhibited and presented his work at festivals and galleries around the world including New York, Montreal, Copenhagen and Sao Paulo. He currently works as a computer programmer and lecturer at SUNY Purchase College in New York.
Computer programming code has mostly been regarded in a functional sense. Even as artists have moved into the realm of writing code to produce art, the code itself has been seen as a "tool" and not generally considered in an aesthetic or conceptually meaningful way.
Pall Thayer will present some of his art work going back to the year 2006, using his piece as a point of departure to explain and examine the role of code in his work and why he later ended up producing "Microcodes", works based entirely on displaying computer programming code as final art works as opposed to displaying the results of running that code.