Game Art: Kent Lambert's "Hymn of Reckoning" (2006)

Kent Lambert's Hymn of Reckoning (2006) explores themes of combat, torture and grief using images and sounds from the TV series 24 and Lost, 1980s Nintendo games, and various known and unknown films.

Kent Lambert is a Chicago-based musician and media artist. He worked from 2001 to 2004 as the VDB’s Distribution Assistant and is currently a technological troubleshooter at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. His creative output primarily consists of vocal driven art-pop music and pop-inflected video art made from repurposed industrial and commercial media. His ever-mutating art-pop band Roommate has been performing stateside and abroad for over a decade.