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Game Art: COLL.EO's "GRAND THEFT SAMO" (2014)

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 New project from COLL.EO:  GRAND THEFT SAMO, a modded version of Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008), GRAND THEFT SAMO is an in-game performance, a series of videos (machinima), screengrabs, and digital prints featuring the avatar of Jean-Michel Basquiat. As COLL.EO explain:"GRAND THEFT SAMO  is part of COLL.EO's ongoing Grand Theft Auto's interventions, a series of performances and artworks set within the virtual spaces of Liberty City, created in collaboration with Iranian modder Amir Ghoreyshi. The series includes Grand Theft Vito and Following Bit, both developed in 2013. In Grand Theft Samo, the player wanders through the streets of an erszat New York under the guise of Jean-Michel Basquiat. COLL.EO has faithfully reproduced several SAMO's graffiti and embedded them onto buildings, storefronts, and doors."LINK: COLL.EO.Submitted by Matteo Bittanti

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