LX 2.0's new project: Space Race #1 by Andre Sier

Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea ihas launched on March 7th, LX 2.0
Project's new comission, the project Space Race #1 by Lisbon-based
media artist André Sier (http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20).

Space Race #1 is a 3d simulation in which teams of autonomous
elements compete for a mysterious green fuel, that allows for a
spaceship, the only possible way of escaping, to take them to another
planet, the next level of the game. The team members are always
organized and operating according to the team's internal logic,
either it being looking for the spaceship and running to it,
gathering fuel and working either together or independently. Each
member is characterized by unique features and each group is
organized in swarms that perform the required tasks in order to
achieve their goal, conquering the spaceship and traveling to another
world. When they arrive to the new planet, they alert the local
population that they are ready to compete with them in search of fuel
for the next spaceship that will, once again, transport them to yet
another planet.
Space race #1 follows and repeats this logic endlessly, taking on the
structure of an abstract computer game, where accomplishing certain
tasks and defeating the enemy allows the team to reach subsequent
levels. But reaching another level never brings the teams closer to
the end of their missions. This space race has no visible end or any
kind of possible gameplay for us to interact with it. It is an
abstract generative fantasy that explores the language, codes and
strategies of contemporary computer gaming.

André Sier works as a media artist-programmer. He has a degree in
philosophy but studied also painting and sculpture. Sier creates
objects involving audio-visual programming languages and has been
showing them since the late 90's , as well as collaborating with
visual artists, performers and musicians. He teaches audio-visual
programming since 2002.