Richard Bolam makes new art out of old Macs

Some folks have an admirably tireless dedication to the Apple
Newton. British artist Richard Bolam has a tireless dedication to another discarded Apple technology:
HyperCard.

His work Hyperscape 1 was recently shown at the
Electrohype festival in Sweden. It runs on eight Macs, one of which runs a HyperCard program, created by Bolam, that determines the screen output of the seven other machines. The result is a quasi-random display of ever-shifting images. Bolam says the concept behind the piece is to examine how humans process information.

In an age when most multimedia artists are salivating over the latest and greatest, Bolam's approach to technological art is a refreshing anomaly. Perhaps the iPod shuffle marketing team will appreciate Bolam's particular interpretation of the "Life is Random" slogan?