The Monitor is an interactive game contextualized in art history.

The Monitor game is based on the history of the American Civil War the Monitor, and its epic battle with the confederate ironclad, Merrimack. As captain of the Monitor, your first goal is to find the Merrimack. Once found, your goal is now to avoid destroying your own ship. This goal is based on the historical fact that the Monitor's gunners could not fire their cannons straight ahead due to the fact that the Pilothouse was inconveniently place in the line of fire.
Further, the gunners of the Monitor had no way to sight their guns, because there was no visual means provided for doing so. The lack of visual reference is the foundation point of the game, and also the foundation point for a study of Modernism. The Monitor was a very early example of form determined by function. It was the first boat in the world designed completely as a fighting machine. That its form often defeated its function is further explored in terms of Dadaism and Pop Art.