GAME ART: OLIVIER CHEVAL'S THE MUSEUM IS FREE (2015)

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Olivier Cheval's machinima depicts a virtual museum of violence, from WWII till today, re-enacted with Grand Theft Auto V and screened in a game-within-a-virtual-world.

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Olivier Cheval was born in 1988. He lives and works in Paris. Olivier Cheval works with images, especially images of violence and war. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in November 2015, Cheval received his Ph.D in cinema studies at Lyon 2 with a dissertation entitled "The sharing of pain in contemporary cinema".

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