Game Art: IP Yuk-Yiu's "The Plastic Garden" (2013)

A terrific machinima developed with Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision, 2010), The Plastic Garden (2013) was created by IP Yuk-Yiu. Yuk-Yiu  an experimental filmmaker, media artist, art educator and independent curator. Yuk Yin is Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His works have been shown extensively in international festivals such as the Image Festival, Transmediale, CinemaTexas, Ann Arbor Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Viper Festival, New York Film Festival, Yamagato International Documentary Film Festival and more. His recent work explores performative and computational forms of cinema.

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"Evoking imagery and memories of the atomic age, THE PLASTIC GARDEN summons the ghost of a forgotten future, the grim fatality of a total nuclear war that held the world hostage half a century ago. Hacking and appropriating the popular video game CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS (2010), THE PLASTIC GARDEN revisited the dark vision and symbolism of the nuclear drama that seems on the one hand remotely archaic, but hauntingly close and familiar on the other. The restaged scenes, devoid of bloody shootouts, are equally if not more lethal and violent than in the original game. THE PLASTIC GARDEN unravels a forgotten future that felt like an endless nightmare spinning loose, or else a collective death wish that comes to define the tragic essence of modern socio-political reality." (Ip Yuk-Yik)

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