GAME ART: PIETER SCHOOLWERTH'S SHIFTED SIMS (2020)
In the video below, artist Pieter Schoolwerth describes the origin of the project, dwelling on the notion of masks, avatars, and performances:
And here's a great video review.Pieter Schoolwerth (b. 1970, St. Louis, MO) lives and works in New York. Since graduating from the California Institute of the Arts in 1994, he has exhibited internationally with notable solo shows at Thread Waxing Space; Greene Naftali; American Fine Arts Co.; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Gallery SKE, New Delhi; What Pipeline, Detroit; Capitain Petzel, Berlin; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Sadie Coles, London; 303 Gallery; Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Petzel Gallery, New York.LINK: Pieter Schoolwerth (All images and videos, courtesy of Petzel Gallery)