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dislekcia
20-10-2009, 12:23 PM
Telling Death FB page: (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Telling-Death-Experiments-in-Digital-Killing/161398885307)

Telling Death - Experiments in Digital Killing
How to... 1. Choose a photo. 2. Comment - Write a story about how the character died - include as many (or as few) details as you want. 3. Add your name to the end of the story (or if you want to remain anonymous, please just say so - you dont need to add your full name, and you can also go by a pseudonym - Interweb identity and all that jazz).


At the end of 2006 I exhibited a series of photographs at The Parking Gallery in Johannesburg. It was entitled Simulation and consisted of approximately 1000 photographs of "people" or rather NPC's (non-playable characters) I killed in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In 2007 I exhibited the same work in a different format at David Krut Projects as part of a group show called Digital Surrogates. At the end of 2008 I had a solo show at blankprojects in Cape Town titled Point Blank, that consisted of an expanded version of this work entitled Simulation: Re:Load and large, abstract prints of character blood.

I missed Pippa's original exhibitions, but this sounds like an interesting way too do some random writing and creatively look at death in games. Some people may remember that I made a whole comp about death a while back. What you probably don't know is that I sent the winner off to Pippa and we had a really long set of discussions about it ;)

So, if you see a photo you like or otherwise feel inspired to write what happened and populate that image's backstory, go for it!

Fengol
20-10-2009, 01:11 PM
It was all Cthulhu!

Nandrew
20-10-2009, 07:03 PM
Hey, I'll see what I can do to contribute. I'm currently playing through quite a few games that won't, er, really fit the bill (some of them are in plain ASCII), and I've yet to find a way to kill my Guitar Hero protagonist. But I'll bear this in mind when I play the next suitable title. :)

dislekcia
20-10-2009, 10:53 PM
Hey, I'll see what I can do to contribute. I'm currently playing through quite a few games that won't, er, really fit the bill (some of them are in plain ASCII), and I've yet to find a way to kill my Guitar Hero protagonist. But I'll bear this in mind when I play the next suitable title. :)

I think you can submit your own photos, but I think the goal is more to give backstories for the pics already on the blog from GTA. If you see something that makes you want to write, write ;)

UnexpectedGirl
27-10-2009, 10:39 AM
Yeah the goal is come up with a public contributed narrative - to look at the photo and write a story to go with it - I've had some really interesting contributions so far - in the form of poetry, one line captions, stories. Theres a facebook page as well if you're interested in joining (i see dislekcia has linked to it), and all the posts are rss'd straight there. I'd prefer people to comment on the actual blog but i have had a couple of people make contributions direct to FB :)

It's a very open, fun project, so pretty much anything goes :)

DukeOFprunes
27-10-2009, 11:12 AM
If only I could save screenshots to my laptop from my Xbox - I was actually sat showing my housemate some of the people I iced in Borderlands last night, giving her running commentary on each corpse and limb scattered about the place.

DukeOFprunes
27-10-2009, 04:25 PM
Hey, I'll see what I can do to contribute. I'm currently playing through quite a few games that won't, er, really fit the bill (some of them are in plain ASCII)...

Flipping heck, we should do Dwarf Fortress on this thing. Deaths, tragedies and disasters range from the mundane to the apocalyptic, but yeah it's kinda hard to "exhibit" a red frowny face ASCII character, explaining that this was actually your master wrestler who took a magma man in unarmed combat, broke both its legs off with his BARE HANDS and then having caught fire from the beast proceeded to twist four well-armed goblin invaders into unrecognizable shapes before collapsing in a fiery, glorious and heroic heap before being interned in an obsidian coffin which was then deposited into the nearest volcano in honour of his sacrifice.

(That's one ****-off long sentence)

GTA can NOT be that hardcore.