Game Art: Chris Howlett's "Bushtalkers" (2012)
Australian artist Chris Howlett' latest project is titled Bushtalkers, "a Two Player Interactive Game Mod which used the Unreal Tournament 3 game engine to create a giant fantasy forest where two players could explore aimlessly without the capability to shoot their guns. Their only guide was a series of coloured spotlights which pooled up as the players walked into their vicinity, each triggering a personal story from war veterans returning from Iraq." (Howlett). As in his previous works - Howlett mixes different artifacts: digital games, but also blogs, tv recordings and more. Howlett investigates a "media driven landscape" through the lenses of a first-person shooter - the genre has been specifically chose for the particular subject position that it enforces. Additional information here.
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