Game Art: Dave Ball's "I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America" (2016)

My comment is frankly redundant, but I'll make it anyway. This is pure genius.

Dave Ball, a British artist living and working in Berlin, has appropriated Desert Bus (1994), aka "the most boring video game ever developed" for a playable installation in which he discusses "his first childhood holidays abroad, focussing in particular on endless journeys by ferry, plane, and car." The above video, a 3-minute excerpt of I've Always Wanted to Drive Across America, is a great preview of the full 8-hour journey taking place in an, endless pixellated desert where nothing ever happens. The work was first shown at the exhibition Travelling/Reisen at Group Global 3000 project space, Berlin in 2016.

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