Alex decompiled viruses and wrote a program to generate 3D graphics based on this code. He tried to find interesting, repetitive patterns in the behavior of viruses and spam. In the picture below, the scary red tentacles were generated by the Mydoom worm in the course of its life (port scanning). In general, on the basis of various viruses, the artist created dozens of impressive graphic images: “These creatures are very smart. Very intelligently designed. Digital organisms are indeed capable of adapting to their environment and reproducing. We wanted to capture their complexity and uniqueness, ”he says.
Interestingly, the order for the creation of the paintings came from the well-known antivirus company MessageLabs. It seems that specialists, tired of fighting the infection, decided to see who they had been fighting with all these years. They provided Alex with samples of viruses, as well as spam databases and other materials for work.
An exhibition of Dragulescu's work recently opened in one of the art galleries in San Francisco.
The next series of pictures Alex is going to generate based on abstract portraits of bloggers, that is, based on the content of their magazines and social connections in local blogging communities.