GAME ART: KARL MUNSTEDT'S GRAND THEFT HOMO (2019)
Karl Munstedt's Grand Theft Homo is an ongoing project comprising mods, hacks, and queer-ings of Grand Theft Auto V intended to subvert and obscure the hetero-masculine tropes embedded within the algorithms of the game. New mods are added to an online repository, which will augment the GTA world over time piece by piece. All mods are published as open-source files and include instructions for their implementation. Aspart of his Queertopia initiative, Munstedt has created the Fagbus, Billboards and Atrazine Store (related to his previous project Something in the Water).
Karl Munstedt is an artist and technologist living and working in Brooklyn NY. In his practice, he employs technologies like gaming, augmented reality, and the web to explore future, destruction, and fantasy. He graduated with a BFA in digital art from Pratt in 2018.
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