There's an exhibition on of 'photos' of in-game event areas, taken from Max Payne 2.
The White Room is a set of photographic prints resulting from an in-game photo shoot that documents a series of constructed disasters. These interiors were set up by the artist using the videogame Max Payne 2, a 'Film Noir' thriller that tells a tale of lost love, deception and betrayal. The shoot took place within the game's developer mode using the GOD and GETALLWEAPONS cheats and BenDMan'S 'bloody mod 1.2'. By transforming the game environment into a ready-made urban studio space, the objects and interiors were altered using the in-game weapons with the gore from dead enemies being used to 'paint' the sets before being unceremoniously blasted out of view and the scene captured. The events implied never happened in the game, they are not representations of 'real-life' crimes nor are they illustrations of fictional crime stories. These are silent witnesses, containers demanding context, they are waiting places.
"Waiting Places"! It's so fabulous.
I want a MMOG that will allow me to paint my own pictures, hang them on my own walls, and have a viewing in my own gallery. Then I want to sell them for credits, and get a bigger blaster.
Fucking marvellous.
No offence meant but what a pointless pretentious pile of useless toss.
"The shoot"??? You took some screenshots!
" ready-made urban studio space" Don't you mean 'A room'?
"they are not representations of 'real-life'" After seeing the "artist's'" peace protest (Growing a beard...until he got bored of it of course and shaved it off) I'm sure he has very little to do with real-life.
"These are silent witnesses, containers demanding context, they are waiting places." Or...yet more lazy manipulation of other's hard work for gratuitous ego-massaging dressed up in meaningless pseudo-intellectual phrases. The emperor wears no clothes and this guy was a waste of spunk.
Posted by: Spangler | November 12, 2004 at 16:18
Cool. Someone is stealing my ideas. I've been thinking of making photographs of online games and gamers. There are some juicy concepts floating around and I've not quite put my finger on them.
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