The Prize Budget for Boys is an art group convened in Toronto in 2001 to make new media, performance, video game, literary, and fine art. The PBFB received a Canada Council for the Arts grant in 2002 to complete their online Clubhouse.
Press
press gallery highlights: jpg | pdf
all press so far: txt
2004
ARTnews, 'Mondrian Gets Game', Howie Kahn, November 2004 (see article) (click to see Contents and order)
Toronto Star (Canada), 'Pac-Man hunted by Mondrian's ghost', Peter Goddard, Saturday December 11, 2004 (read article at Star site requires registration) (view scans of header & article)
New York Times (US), 'Chomp if you like Art', Sarah Boxer, Tues December 27, 2004 (read article at Times site requires registration) (view scans of page 1 of the Arts section & the rest of the article)
Globe & Mail (Canada), 'Gobbling up Piet Mondrian', Sarah Boxer, Wednesday December 28, 2004 (view scans of header & article)
National Post (Canada), 'Old School Abstract', Sarah Boxer with files from Pierre Hamilton, Wednesday December 28 2004 (view scan of article)
NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), 'Pac-Man eet Mondriaans Boogie Woogie', Wednesday December 28, 2004
The Guardian (UK), 'Pac-Mondrian', Jack Schofield, Friday December 30, 2005 (read article)
2005
HCC! Magazine (Netherlands), 'Speel Pac-Man in Mondriaan-labyrinth', (read article)
Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina), 'Pac-Man Meets Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie Woogie'', Sarah Boxer, January 9, 2005
News and Observer (US), 'Mondrian updated, joystick not included', Sarah Boxer, January 9, 2005
Radio 1 (Belgium), 'Neon', Nicky Aerts, Thursday January 20, 2005
CBC Radio 1 & 2, 'The World This Weekend', Lorna Jackson, Sunday January 23, 2005 (view archive listing, listen to the interview, or read the transcript)
eye Magazine (Toronto), 'Coding Collagers', Jim Munroe, February 17, 2005, (read article)
Newsweek (US/World), 'The Checklist: Our top picks for the week ahead' March 21, 2005, (read article)
Staten Island Advance, 'Artcade:' A Pac-Man/Mondrian hybrid: Digital jocks merge video gaming with modernist art to get 'Reloaded' at Museum of the Moving Image', Jodi Lee Reifer, March 25, 2005
NY1 (television US, repeated on TimeWarner cable properties throughout US), 'New Exhibit Lets Gamers Compare Old-Style Games To Newer Ones', Adam Balkin, March 30, 2005 (download the clip, read the transcript
Paper City (San Francisco), March (editor requested photos to run in March issue, haven't tracked down copy yet)
Format, SE TV (Sweden), April 26, 2005 (link to show listing in Swedish)
Playboy (Germany), April (editor requested photos to run in April issue, haven't tracked down copy yet)
NY Arts Magazine (US), Sarah Northmore, 'Putting the Mod in Modernist', May 10, 2005 (read article)
JumpButton (Australia), June (order issue)
MTV, VH1 (television US), 'Real World Pac-Man', June 24, 2005, (read the transcript)
Fine Art
2005 'Digital Play', William Fox Gallery, American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
2004 'Pac-Mondrian's 15 Seconds of World Wide Web Fame Party', Art Metropole, Toronto
2004 'retrode', antenna, Toronto
2003 'Eye Scream', Virus Arts, Toronto
2002 'Caffeine Screens', Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver & OCAD, Toronto
2001 'SIFT: The Reading Room', ArtSpeak, Vancouver
Performance Art
2005 The Fascist Stashist @ 'Moustache', Remingtons
2005 Parkdale Meets Rosedale Gala, C Magazine, Toronto (Ms. Pac-Mondrian winner of fashion prize)
2005 The Box Salon, Toronto
2005 The Speakeasy Series, Toronto
2001-3 Spectacular Vernacular Revue presented at venues in New York City, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, Buffalo
2003 Imperial Globe Award Show presented at Toronto Social Forum
New Media Art
2003 'Caffeine Screens Screen Saver Project', Instant Coffee, Toronto
2002 'Prize Budget for Boys Online Clubhouse', prizebudgetforboys.com, World Wide Web
2001 'SIFTED: The Read Room', ArtSpeak, Vancouver
2001 'JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine', ubu.com , New York
2000 'Y2OK', Coach House Books, Toronto
Literary Art
2004 The Prize Budget for Boys present the Spectacular Vernacular Revue, Roof Books, New York
2003 ‘m&m’s’ Poetry on the Way, subways and buses across Canada
2003 ‘The Common Sky’, Three Squares Press, Toronto
2002 ‘sidelines: A Poetics’, Insomniac Press, Toronto
2002 Open Letter, articles on Judy, Capilano Review, Toronto
2000 special editor for 2 issues, Capilano Review, Vancouver
2000-4 literary editor, Queen Street Quarterly
Mike Brown received his MFA in Electronic Art from the University of Cincinnati in 1994 on a full scholarship where he wrote his graduate thesis on technology and its relationship with religion. His work has beeen exhibited at Ars Electronica. At school Mike worked on artist Benjamin Britton's Virtual Reality version of the Lascaux caves, and taught classes in Interactive art, 2D and 3D digital art and 2D and 3D Animation. Following graduation, he entered the video game industry and has worked on several top ten games in the last 10 years. Mike is currently a level designer at Digital Extremes, the studio responsible for Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
Neil Hennessy graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor's of Mathematics in Computer Science and English Literature where he won the George W Hibbard Prize for Excellence in Shakespeare Studies. His poetry has been published in a handful of Canadian poetry journals and on subways and buses across Canada through the Poetry on the Way series, his interview with William S. Burroughs showed up in an anthology, his digital work has been published by UbuWeb (ubu.com) and Coach House Books (chbooks.com), and he is a literary editor with The Queen Street Quarterly. He currently works as a software instructor.
Ian Hooper graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Bishop’s University, where on the strength of his installation art pieces, he won the top prize for studio excellence. He continued to explore "artificial spaces" through his work with virtual reality and cybercafes at the University of Calgary where he earned his Master's in Industrial Design. He has worked professionally designing and printing everything from t-shirts and calendars to large-scale display signage and advertising for magazines and billboards. Aside from his artistic efforts, he has written about technology and culture for a variety of publications including MindVirus (A CD-ROM publication from Sydney, Australia) and Core Magazine (Calgary). Ian Hooper currently works as an information architect and user interface designer.
Mike Horgan received his Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Western Ontario. In addition to a degree in Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering, he was awarded the University Gold Medal for top standing in his graduating class. With interests in computing, gaming, and psychology, he has been credited with AI programming on commercial videogames, worked on projects involving sensory entrainment, arcade-style reflex gaming, and database-driven community websites. He currently works as an AI developer for Digital Extremes, the studio responsible for Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
Tristan Parish edited two issues of The Capilano Review (2000), co-curated a show called 'Sift: The Reading Room' at Artspeak (Vancouver 2001), has had a critical piece on the show in Mix magazine, has been published in side/lines: A Poetics (Insomniac Press 2002), and was on the small mags panel at the TISH conference (Calgary 2001). His work has appeared in Queen Street Quarterly, Open Letter and a number of other Canadian literary periodicals. With Chris Walker he produced the long running art project Judy. Tristan currently manages an international outsourcing practice for one of the "Big 4" professional services firm.
Chris Walker graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor's Degree in English. He has had a critical essay published in Mix magazine (Summer 2001), a piece published in side/lines: A Poetics (Insomniac Press 2002), his poetry appears in various small press journals in Canada, and, along with Tristan Parish, is the co-creator of the art project Judy.
