Game Art: Silvia Dal Dosso's "The 1 Up Fever" (2013)
The Unstitute offers monthly screenings of experimental videos in its online Projection Room. From 15th March to 15th April, the main feature is Silvia Dal Dosso's The 1 Up Fever:
"In the Berlin city everyone is going crazy for a viral new app. Anyone with a smartphone can play a sort of Super Mario Bros arcade game in Augmented Reality and win Bitcoins by playing. One coin corresponds to 0.01 Bitcoins. Citizens' habits are tainted by the game. Coins are hidden all over the city, you can spot them just scanning around with your device, not always they are easy to grab." (Dal Dosso)
As Dal Dosso writes:
“My aim was to raise questions: Where is this money coming from? Who are the developers of the game? Why do you think they're giving you money? What are they using your jumping, data-roaming, and geolocation-tracking for?” (Dal Dosso)LINKLINK:
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti