Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider recent virtual photography screenshot art – via Steam: First off, here’s Fight Crab by Calappa Games (1920 x 1080) Next is the mighty Ace Of Seafood by the same developer, in 4K: Finally today we have the truly janky looking efootball by the truly awful Konami (in 1920 x 1080), whose players … Read morePC Videogame Virtual Photography Screenshot Art
RND/ To consider recent virtual photography via Steam – in this case, ‘Ground Branch’ (PC, Blackfoot Studios): 1920 x 1080 .jpg While just another in an infinitely long line of super-generic military bang-bang shooters, these carefully curated and polished screenshots display a certain unique, often ghostly / creepypasta strangeness which somehow feels at odds with … Read moreHyperreal Military PC Videogame screenshot photography exhibit
RND/ To consider a beach scene nude, heavily bronzed and lightly plasticized, possibly alluding to better, brighter Summer days ahead. 2992 x 2233 .jpg, 4.1MB Ideal / Idealized price for such a concept as this: £150k – contact Robert What today for details — // how to play big science
RND/ To consider what Postmodern Internet Theorist Robert What calls ‘that special shine’ – the feeling of acute Baudrillardian Hyperreality, often experienced (say) when viewing footage of videogames being played on television screens. That this ‘special shine’ somehow symbolically indicates the possibility that modern reality as we remotely we imagine we understand it is already … Read moreThe Video Real: ‘That Special Shine’ In Cyberpunk 2077 On-TV
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 miserable, shoddy, cramped, … Read moreHyperreal Conceptual Painting: The World As An Empty (/Suburban) Illusion
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 ‘mildly hyperreal’ painting of Chicxulub Wharf, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: 4792 x 3640 .jpg, image via Wikipedia Ideal / Idealized Cost for such Conceptual Work: £400K – contact Robert What for details. — Landscape Painting of Yanchep Western Australia (Simon Deadman Remix) // how to play big science
RND/ to imagine letting your geek shine via a hyperreal Vic 20 retro gaming painting 3840 x 1810 pixels This version features a tiny inset LCD screen for all your homebrew needs — // how to play big science