Game Art: Eva Frapiccini's "Street Fighters" (2010)

 Interactive game cabinet with touchscreen and electric wires, 8 videos

"Street Fighters” addresses the delicate theme of death at work in Italy, the country with Europe’s highest professional mortality rate. An unfortunate record of more than 1300 victims a year, meaning that 4 or 5 workers die every day,for the greediness of those managers who don’t stick to health and safety regulations. The project consist in a video-installation: short videos played by an 80’s game cabinet, from the bottom of which many power cables run across the floor and walls of the space. The viewer -ironically trapped by the desire of playing- can interact with the videogame, and choose which videos and features to watch" (Eva Frapiccini)

"Eva Frapiccini was born in Recanati in 1978. She lives and works in Milan and Turin.  She took her degree from the University of Bologna’s DAMS; with a scholarship she then followed a three-year course in the Istituto Europeo di Design, Turin, where she graduated in photography in 2006. Her projects, all backed up by accurate documentation of her fieldwork, move with ease among the various codes of imagery and photographic language, and since 2009 they have been enriched by such means as video and spatial installations. "

link: Eva Frapiccini

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti