Game Art: Oscar Nodal's "Sleepy existence" (2014)

Oscar Manuel Nodal Mercado (b. Juárez, 1986) is a Mexican visual artist whose work explores glitch aesthetic and bit rot. Glitch upon a time in the west is a glitchy machinima created with the game Sleeping Dogs by United Front Games and Square Enix. Nodal holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Autonomous University of  Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

As art critic Emiliano Villareal writes:

"By moments a critical observer of Oscar Nodal's work, feels illustrated by the influence of concept art, technological discourses and cybernetic narratives. As technology is shown to have a major influence on Nodal's work, the evidence of its role debates between the historical, the social and the aesthetic: it seems to establish a correlation between video art and new media art. Allow me to better explain that, Nodal flirts with ideas of exploring perfection in his work and at the same times looks at how emotion can be contained within the apparently purely mechanical output of video... he's not making movies, he's making video (no, not videos, just video)."

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