Friday, July 17, 2009

Luke Murphy, "Porno Painter" : Selected by Cristin Tierney

New York and Connecticut-based art adviser Cristin Tierney has selected a titillating digital video by Luke Murphy titled "Porno Painter," which, as the artist explains, "animates the words taken from the “meta” tags of various pornography sites. Meta tags are the lists of words placed inside web pages that define the content of that site for categorization when search engines spider or examine the site as it is placed in the search database. When strung together as I have done here they make for a furious Tourette’s like burst of sex words."
Luke Murphy
Porno Painter
2005
Application, source code, image reservoir
Dimensions variable
Edition of 7
$2,000.00
Image courtesy of the artist and CANADA, New York.

You can view the video at Luke's website here.

Proceeds from the sale of this work benefit Cristin's selected charity: The Lower East Side Printshop, the "non-profit art center that supports contemporary artists of all creative backgrounds by offering them studio space, career services, and expertise in printmaking to develop new work through experimentation and collaboration."