Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider videogame art of Building Simulator (PC, 4K) All images via Steam Community screenshots. Videogame Paintings: Farming Simulator 22 (4K, PC) Scenes From The Two Dimensional City: Lotus Simulator Virtual Photography Light Study In English Boredom Simulator Reginald Perrin Space 1999: Creepy 70’s Sci Fi Simulator Game Screenshots Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (PC … 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 a philosophical reality theory of videogame emptiness. Some paintings: 3440 x 1440 .jpg – via SCUM (just another D.O.A. survival multiplayer game-thing, by ‘Gamepires’) In which you’ve often considered why the vast majority of videogames have not truly appealed to you for a long time. That it might be something to do … 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// To consider ‘The Best Of Alien Fiction’: Hi. This is a collection of largely unedited, contextless, middle-2K era posts from my old site alienfiction.com. This was before I was permanently unable to log back in, due to Vogonesque levels of bureaucratic incompetence on Godaddy’s part. (Do not register a website with them.) I’d managed … Read more