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 discussing the relative deadness of mods / modding culture:
this-mod-is-dead-some-imaginary-play.zip
Some conceptual art for this RND project:
Boot screen for this project
Typical DOA meme to go with this crepuscular conceptual play space
Gravestone Logos for this project
All hail Randay Savage; patron saint of dead mods
Where all good mods either end up or are born
Conceptual portrait of the dawning of (/un)dead mods
Conceptual space of dead mod development
To perform an undead unintall of dead mods
Conceptual artwork highlighting what might be ‘Patient Zero’ (/image) of dead mods
On the deadness of “mod database dot com”
“This Mod Is Dead” Conceptual Paintings
// how to play big science