Strange Imaginary Games
RND// To consider paintings of Train Sim World 2 game screenshots. Images via Steam Community. Sample: Download 50 x 4k .jpg images (.zip, 98.9MB) In which such images of the everyday-mundane seem to express a lightly disconcerting stillness and hyperreal emptiness – but not really. Diving Everydayness: The Wolverhampton Aqualung Society Pseudo Liminal Kenopsia In … Read more
RND/ To imagine an infinite, procedurally generated Suburbia Simulator game. Some example screenshots, taken from the excellent Terracotta by developer Olivia Haines. 3440 x 1440, 16 color .png In which such an emotionally overcast play-space would accurately express the feeling of acute terminal boredom, listness, flatness and un-profound everydayness experienced by walking around the houses … Read more
RND/ To consider a hyperreal conceptual painting – the concept being the world as an empty (/suburban) illusion, quietly devoid of anything: 4070 x 2790 .jpg Ideal / Idealized Cost for such Conceptual Work: £480k* – contact Robert for details. *What it would roughly cost to get the fuck out of my often astoundingly miserable, … Read more
RND/ To imagine a series of virtual paintings expressing the mundane light of Everydayness in 64 colors. Political images via Flickr: — Example Reference Links Diving Everydayness: Wolverhampton Aqualung Society Unsatisfactory Europa: DMCA and Fair Use in the digital arts
RND/ To consider a photograph series expressing the existential misery of renting. Images via typically scummy UK aggregate Lettings Agency site: Ideal / Idealized Cost for such Conceptual Work: £2.5M in order to pay for the disgusting cost of a half decent house in my area that’s not as awful as those seen here. Contact … Read more