Game Art: Brent Watanabe's "High Noon" (2011)

"Every 40 minutes (when the thermostat reads 12:00PM), gunshots ring out between the speakers, and if gallerygoers happen to be standing between them, they get "hit" and the body count is tallied on the "thermostat" on the wall. Some visitors figure it out immediately (and often throw themselves into harm's way, says curator Cable Griffith, enacting their own false deaths), and others never understand why gunshots just seem to go off in the gallery. If no one is hit, you hear the sounds of casings hitting the floor. The game plays for you, with you, without you, against you." (Jen Graves, The Stranger)

Pure genius.

: Brent Watanabe
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti