Luke Moloney
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Luke Moloney is a new media artist and engineer based in Vancouver, Canada. Since leaving Relic, Luke has gone on to work in the media arts where he applies his technical development, project management and design skills to a diverse range of projects. Recent works include the Fête Mobile as well as a prototype called the CSUP which was exhibited at the Societé des Arts Technologiques (SAT) in Montreal last year as part of the "We Have Shared" exhibition for the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN).
Luke Moloney was born and raised in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, graduating from Mabou Consolidated School.
He was a self-taught programmer. He first encountered videogames via Space Invaders in 1982. Since then he learned BASIC and Pascal during school, and tinkered with the Power Glove. Instead of college, he taught himself advanced programming through working on computer games, beginning with a variety of smaller projects. He programmed Faceball for Xanth Software F/X. He also worked on the Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar and worked at Radical Entertainment.
In 1997, at age 22, he co-founded a game company. Along with Alex Garden, Luke Moloney founded the Vancouver-based game developer Relic Entertainment. He served as lead programmer on Homeworld and Homeworld 2. After selling his shares in Relic in 2003, Luke left his position as lead programmer at Relic to pursue other iniatives. Currently Luke is heading the Pandora Benevolent Society, a new media research initiative.
Luke Moloney, Marc Tuters and Adrian Sinclair exhibited Fête Mobile, an experimental autonomous media platform that centers around a robotic blimp equipped with video-capture and wireless capabilities for remote sensing the landscape from above and interacting with the public below. Fête Mobile exhibited at the ZeroOne International Symposium of Electronic Art ISEA2006 Symposium in San Jose, California during August 2006.
[edit] Trivia
- Luke carried a pad of post-it notes in his wallet each saying "Hidden Camera" or "Smile You're on Camera" that would be placed on CCTV cameras around Vancouver.
