Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider scenes from Dead Object World (via Nohra’s Containment mod for Half life): Pseudo Liminal Kenopsia In Videogame Spaces: PC Screenshot Photography Nonplaces: Half Life Maps Noclip Virtual Photography Screenshot Art The Existential Airlessness Of Old Half Life Mods “This Mod Is Dead” Conceptual Paintings The Future: A Dead Cyberpunk MMO Server The … Read more
RND/ An existential enquiry; in which players carefully consider the immense collective waste of time disturbingly large sections of humanity have spend grinding away at Halo – an All Amerikan militaristic science fiction media franchise managed and developed by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios: 3840 x 2160 .jpg, via Steam Community This … Read more
RND/ In which you consider that, except for bots, the nets appear entirely empty and devoid of human life. That it’s ‘bots all the way down”, that the whole web is one big automatic A.I. powered advertisement for itself, continually selling the idea of itself to itself: 3840 x 2160 .jpg – via an edited … Read more
RND/ To consider generic videogame screenshots of nothing – a lament for ‘The Video Real’: 1920 x 1080 .jpg via Steam Community In which such an exhibition is a historical-cultural record, not of something but of precisely nothing. Images of nothing – of the ‘sickness of seeing’ perhaps – but definitely of little else. The … Read more
RND/ To consider the silent emptiness of Formula One 2020 videogame by (literally straight up evil Hypercorporation) Electronic Arts. Hot, airless, bland, and absurd: 3840 X 2160 .jpg Round and round the track we go And why we bother nobody know$ // how to play big science