A R&D scenario; in which you spent a year or more collating and editing images with what you term 'that special shine' - in other words "Hypertography: abstract conceptual images rendering strange the depthless virtual paradise of Global Videogame Capitalism (aka Ludocapitalism) - its hyperreal spectacle, its symbolic fiction and existential threat." That is, the … Continue reading Virtual Photography Exhibit: Global Videogame Capitalism and its Existential Threat
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Neotokyo°: Cyberpunk FPS Multiplayer Noclip Virtual Photography Exhibit
RND/ To imagine a series of noclip Virtual Photography screenshots of NEOTOKYO° - multiplayer PC FPS conversion-modification by Studio Radi-8: In which one considers the romantic near future colonial / orientalist fantasies underpinning such videogame architecture. 3440 x 1440, edited in Gimp
Trapped In Second Life VR-Hell: A Remembrance
It's what the whole hip world does, now the Kardashians won - Paraphrasing Hunter S. Thompson Aint nobody even look like dat - Flavor Flav, She Watch Channel Zero Plastic people / Oh baby now / You're such a drag - Frank Zappa What would a planet of 'the fit' look like? Credit cards with … Continue reading Trapped In Second Life VR-Hell: A Remembrance
WW2 Digital Painting Exhibit: Day Of Defeat Source
RND/ consider a WW2 themed exhibit for "Day Of Defeat: Source" videogame Enlarged screenshots edited in Gimp to look vaguely like paintings https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertwhat/46114925465/in/album-72157700638190501/ Full exhibit at Flickr --- // how to play big science
Virtual Photography Exhibit: “This Mod Is Dead”
RND/ to consider partial historical / aesthetic archival study of dead, abandoned, andor dead-on-arrival mods - and a lament. Part of the Virtual Photography Exhibit: Global Videogame Capitalism and its Existential Threat First, some (mysteriously end-sentence truncated conceptual 'play code' for this study) - featuring an oldskool design document, and excerpts from various board posts … Continue reading Virtual Photography Exhibit: “This Mod Is Dead”
Observing JBlow’s Witness: A Critique
RND/ To consider game designer Jonathan Blowhard's "Witness": Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit The result is the feeling of a game that's depressingly lacking in energy, heart, and soul. There isn't even any music. The island may be pretty to look at in screenshots, but in motion it is utterly lifeless. The developer's sheer … Continue reading Observing JBlow’s Witness: A Critique
Pathologic Mod For Skyrim
RND/ to consider Pathologic set in Skyrim Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit research space idea/ recreate slow creeping quote strange vibe flavor of pathologic - x flat quote bleached atmosphere of sinister desperation hallucinatory existential horror in skyrim - with ambient wind noise example background story / context ey called nigel hornswagger mildly dirty … Continue reading Pathologic Mod For Skyrim
No Man’s Sky
RND/ to imagine no mans sky / another mans sky / no mans sky concept art another take --- / no mans sky - digital conceptual painting based on astounding sentence from garmeranx video/ will mans sky developers ever respond - update/ yas sentence in question fully fits requirements of what henry rollins once termed … Continue reading No Man’s Sky