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Abstract
"Borderland" is based on video game duels such as "Tekken" or "Mortal Kombat". Whereas superheroes or pop icons such as the Shaolin or the pro-wrestler are usually the combatants in these games, Laurent Hart and Julien Alma use completely ordinary people as the characters in their lovingly produced, detailed CD-ROM work: old ladies, tramps, workmen, white and black teenagers – run-of-the-mill characters who square up to fight each other against the backdrop of the suburbs of Paris that have become a desolated no-man’s land. 55 characters can fight each other in 280 settings – e.g. rubbish tips, car parks and building sites. While these settings are akin to the post-apocalyptic scenarios of numerous computer games, the characters look like an ironic comment on the unchanging muscle-bound supermen that usually feature in games of this kind. At the same time, what shines through the humorous surface is a picture of society in which everyone fights everyone else – and be it little pigtailed girls fighting businessmen with briefcases.
(Tilman Baumgärtel)
Artists / Authors
- Lucien Alma › Biography
- Laurent Hart › Biography
Origination
France, 2001
Submission
, Apr 8, 2004
Category
- artistic production
Keywords
- Topics:
- games |
- media art |
- virtual reality
- Formats:
- CD-ROM |
- virtual environment |
- interactive |
- computer animation