Game Art: Hunter Jonakin's "Can You Hear Me Now? You'll Never Hear Me Again or Modern Flaneur: Extreme Wanderlust" (2013)
After executing Jeff Koons, the Minneapolis-based artist Hunter Jonakin has kept himself extremely busy. His new project reconciles videogames and psychogeography. The viewer of "Can You Hear Me Now? You'll Never Hear Me Again or Modern Flaneur: Extreme Wanderlust" (2013) can "Wander fifty square blocks of a fictitious city. Hourglasses can be picked up in order to add more time to explore the urban environment. The world contains complete surveillance and features a UAV, hundreds of security cameras, and disconnected, digitally immersed crowds" (Jonakin). Forget the idiotic PS4 action-game InFamous: Second Son. This is a game about surveillance.
LINK:Submitted my Matteo Bittanti