The Code War, 2014

The Code War is an installation that tracks the origins of the Stuxnet worm. This is a weapon made entirely out of code. It was developed by the US and Israeli governments in 2007 to infiltrate Iran's Nuclear program in Natanz. It was leaked in 2010 and is a commodity on the internet's black market. It has been used to interrupt the infrastructures of Russia, the US, Japan and most recently, the Ukraine.
The installation was designed to show and make visible the Stuxnet code through objects. A half-geodesic dome was skinned with mirrors. This augmented the primary kinetic sculpture which rotated inside the dome and projected imagery onto the mirrors. Odd refractions bounced off the sculpture and it appeared hidden.

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• Assistant/Collaborator: Joseph Hansen
  Fabricators: Denise Owens, Joan Raspo

• projection mapping using animations made by remixing processing and MAX MSP projects to augment a montage of sound bytes from government officials.

• hacked remote toy vehicles, galvanized steel dome, plexi glass mirrors, Processing, MAX MSP, Final Cut Pro, and a Pico 300 portable projector