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Reportage: "Serious Games" show on arté (May 2011)

"Les images de guerre sont omniprésentes sur nos écrans. Elles sont diffusées en un flot interrompu qui finissent par émousser notre pouvoir d'empathie : elles deviennent banales. A tel point qu'on ne les voit plus, qu'on ne cherche plus à en saisir la portée. Ce qui devrait nous rapprocher du réel, donner corps aux évènements, nous en distancie inexorablement. A Darmstadt, une exposition pousse à la réflexion sur l'emprise ces images sur notre conscience et dénonce la militarisation de nos esprits par les médias : "Serious games", à voir à la Mathildenhöhe jusqu'au 24 juillet. Un reportage de Christina Küfner." (Arté)

Link: Serious Game @ arté

Related: Harun Farocki

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti

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