The Viral Visions of Alex Dragulescu

C.S. Magor — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:40:05 -0700

In my travels of the World Wide Web, I came across something that was quite incredible and had to investigate further. Artist Alex Dragulescu has created what can only be described as viral art. The art was created from the disassembled code of some of a number of different viruses that have, at different times, plagued the Ether.

According to the artist:
"Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism."

The title image is Dragulescu's representation of PWSLineage. His other works follow below. If you want to see the images in all of their glory and perhaps make yourself an awesome desktop background, get over to the Malwarez site. Given the URL, it looks incredibly sinister but is safe, I can assure you.

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The Viral Visions of Alex Dragulescu