Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider 4K ‘noclip’ Virtual Photography (videogame screenshot art) for Return To Castle Wolfenstein (FPS, Activision 2001). Samples: Download x117 .jpg images (.zip file) In which the strange emptiness of such virtual spaces feels haunted by the dead historical weight of the systematic cruelty and insane scientific rationality which informed the game itself. Onward: … Read more
RND/ To consider some noclip videogame screenshot art / virtual photography of Gmod: In which you prepare to critique the ideas of ‘Liminality’ and ‘Kenopsia in videogame spaces. 3440 x 1440 .jpg Toward A Possible Critique Of Liminality First of, one might say: balls to that loose internet jive about teh ‘AESTHETIC’, whatever it is. … Read more
RND/ on haunted play narratives of gone home Part of the Hypertography One Exhibit one becomes full member of sum community not simply by identifying with x explicit symbolic tradition but only when one also assumes x spectral dimension sustaining x tradition/ undead ghosts x haunt living secret history of traumatic fantasies transmitted between lines … Read more