Malwarez
From Alex Dragulescu’s site:
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.
I think it’s more accurate to say that this is a work of aleatory art, designed by the artist, with the fine details supplied by an outside source not under the control of the artist. Using computer viruses is a nice gimmick, but sudokus or random number generators or DNA sequences would work just as well.
Alternatively, the artist may have produced a work of conceptual art, consisting of a pretty image plus a pretentious story about the image. The combined work might get a showing in a gallery, where the image alone would not. The consumer, viewing the image and hearing the story, has no way of knowing whether the story is true, but maybe the lack of verifiability is also part of the piece.