artist statement

What appeals to me about the gameboy as a platform is its combination of high- and low-tech aesthetics. It is a past vision of the future; like the "streamlined" styled tube radios of the early 1950s, it is clearly outdated in a purely technological sense, but a certain generation is still capable of remembering it as a futuristic technological artifact

How to tie these things together---I have had a long standing interest in religious technology (crudely prototyped in the USB Menorah), including biblio-technology (e.g., the I-Ching, manuscript Book of Hours, etc.). Also, the recent hand-wringing over the emergence of China as a technological superpower, the relationship thereof to its Maoist past (indeed, the entire cult of Mao's quotations may be considered under the religious bibliotechnology heading), is quite interesting. Future projects may return to Judaism, explore Mayan cosmology (or more precisely cosmo-chrony), Taoist geomancy and apocryphal Christian gospels. I'm not ruling out Sikhism or Hinduism from the lense either.

Please note that the "games" have been tuned for optimal display on real gameboy hardware, rather than with emulators. Consequently, certain emulators may not handle the screen-blanking intervals correctly, resulting in "unphysical" flickers, etc. Or, more to the point, consequently emulation is no substitute.

Due to several inquiries, I am now making programmed ROM-chips and the cartridge printed circuit boards for a nominal fee. You are still encouraged to make your own, using the files provided for free on this website