EVENT: TOTAL REFUSAL + ISMAEL CANDOUTIS, THE HYPERREAL NORMALITY OF VIDEO GAMES (ONLINE)
EVERYDAY DAYLIGHT
The Hyperreal Normality of Video Games
Interactive in-game lecture performance von Total Refusal & Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
January 14 2021 at 7PM
Together with Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Total Refusal does art in video games, and this time they explore the city of Los Santos in the game GTA V. They visit locations where important films and works of game art were created. As they drive through the digital city, they discuss question of why normality in video games with the audience, focu on the hyperreal and how this can be used or misused artistically. Afterwards, we will sit down in the digital cinema and watch the films Swatted (I.J. Chandoutis, 2018) and How to Disappear (Total Refusal, 2020).