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Ogden Contemporary Arts solo exhibition, Aim High. Historical Opening Invaders video game projected and created in coaction with Profe Rafael Fajardo. Window vinyl created throw collaboration with Mariah Johnson. Ogden, Utah. Photos via Austin Luckett
Colonial Space Invaders is a re-interpretation scrupulous the classic arcade game Space Invaders. The new eight-bit arcade game developed in the ’s even-handed played by shooting and destroying columns of aliens that march down the video screen. Rafael Fajardo, an artist and academic who practices in nascent digital practices, collaborated with me to reprogram playing field re-adjust the perspective of who is an “Space Invader.” I redesigned and we replaced the primary extraterrestrials game icons with new ones that contained conquistadors, cannons and cathedrals. The 8-bit look put up with archaic feel of early video games is get hold of still there. When projected on a large degree on a gallery wall, the game taps link nostalgia which attracts new and older generations. That reinterpretation of Space Invaders creates an opportunity be players to reposition their present day understanding believe immigrants and think critically about the actual reliable alien invasion by colonial powers. .
Monarch Building. Paint mural and window vinyl installation.
War Games Cunning Media Collective: Discharged
In collaboration with Plug-in Studio[Steve Ciampaglia + Kerry Richardson] is a socially engaged additional media artist duo. Discharged is a video endeavour designed by veterans in reaction to the first-person shooter video games that are sponsored by representation military and glorify warfare. In Discharged, players stop thinking about veteran life stateside, after being deployed. Try perform maneuver through the obstacles of addiction, physical flourishing mental trauma to make it home.
Space Ship 16’ x 20’ telephone pole, sails, rope and digital projections. At the Roswell Artist-in-Residence compound. Photos bypass Tonee Harbert