Alternative Videogame Screenshot Art Exhibit
A downloadable Screenshot Art
Alternative Videogame Screenshot Art Exhibit
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images." - Guy Debord, Society Of The Spectacle
"Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements?" - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death (1985)
"Immense energies are deployed to hold this simulacrum at bay, to avoid the brutal desimulation that would confront us in the face of the obvious reality of a radical loss of meaning" - Jean Baudrillard on Information, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Carefully curated & polished Virtual Photography (videogame screenshot art) from the community, and my own Noclip images. 'Epic' or 'cinematic' style corporate Bullshots and other 'promotional' style marketing generally avoided. Instead we highlight the kitschy, the mundane, the liminal, the overlooked and unexpected. A sense of the more-real-than-real..
2846 images, 1.7GB.
There's an essay to go with this exhibit, which I'll put up on my site.
Updated | 13 hours ago |
Status | In development |
Category | Book |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
Author | Robert What |
Tags | 3D, Art Book, Exploration, Game Design, glitch, graphics, Liminal space, screenshots, virtual-photography |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard |
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Install instructions
Simply download, unzip, enjoy, contemplate and share. Images in Jpeg Xl format. Windows users can view .jxl images in Irfanview. Please leave a Rating after viewing.
ATTRIBUTION AND CULTURE NOTE
All copyright to the game IP owners; all artistic credit to the original posters of Community screenshots. This free (as in Free Beer + Freedom) art project exists for the purposes of artistic expression, philosophical critique, historical archiving / archaogaming, academic study, social commentary and political satire. Remix, Mashup & Kopimi!
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