Nybble-Engine
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Nybble-Engine is the project name for a series of game arts works based on a game engine crack. The code-artists collective consisting of Max Moswitzer (Vienna) and Margarete Jahrmann (Zurich) was publishing the a modded version of the Unreal game engine interwoven with Linux commands under the label www.climax.at.
Anti-war Shooter Nybble-Engine-ToolZ, developed in cooperation with the V2 lab Rotterdam, sent anti war e-mails to president@whitehouse.gov with each shot in a network game.
Their background is video art, neo conceptual art and network based software art. Since 1996 the artists have run the konsum slackerserver, www.konsum.net. Since 2001 they have been touring with various artistic computer game modifications . Their speciality became live gigs called modular lectures using modified game engines as a visualisation tool for network processes and theory machines.
Climax.at started their game modification work in 1999 with LinX3D, a game console combinated with an ASCII videocamera. A number of consoles were exhibited simultaneously at several art spaces, networking online different kinds of text, as well as ascii images, transfer protocols, user logfiles and sci fi stories. As recently in the dance machine or before the software art award winning Anti-war Shooter Nybble-Engine-ToolZ, developed in cooperation with the V2 lab Rotterdam, sending anti war e-mails to president@whitehouse.gov with each shot in a network game. The climax.at works seem to deconstruct semantic information for the merit of aesthetic information. Climax works consist of hardware hacking trash interfaces and modding in all kinds of codes, rules, cultural software and software cultures.
Although their work was commended at various international festivals and exhibitions, including Transmediale 2004, Ars Electronica 2003, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival and ZKM, due to permanent change and a radical relational multilayer orientation no specific theoretician or institution ever constantly included it in their body of reference.
