1. Shall we play...
2. Chess, poker...
3. Winner: none
4. Greetings...
Paper WOPR (Ode to WarGames)
from WarGames (1985 Film)
Cyanotype on watercolor paper
7” x 5” each
$50 each, or the full set of four for $150
The interface for the WOPR computer in the 1983 film "WarGames" was simple and straightforward. WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) was a fictional military supercomputer that liked to play games and unlike many humans, actually could learn. Keeping things simple, I captured some screens from the movie, adjusted and printed them on transparencies, then exposed small sheets of light-sensitive cyanotype paper overlaid with the screens. Archaic computer technology reproduced on archaic photographic technology. Digital on paper. Simple and straightforward.