Lachlan Brown on Fri, 7 Dec 2001 04:27:01 +0100 (CET) |
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ALL NEW GEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All New Gen was a VNS Matrix interactive multimedia installation which took as its focus a critique of a form of high technology which has become rapidly embedded in popular (male) (youth) culture throughout the post industrial world, the 'Gameboy'. This hand held computer game, originally developed by the Japanese company Nintendo, has been on the market now for several years, gaining immense popularity with children and adolescent boys. In the Gameboy worlds exemplified by Nintendo's DonkeyKongand Super Mario Brothers and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog the rationale is simple, a hero engages with multiple manifestations of enemies, obstacles and hazards. All New Gen promotes a new construct on the block, All New Gen, hero of our game. Gen is 'GameGirl', supported in her mission by her Zonegirls, the DNA Sluts. The enemies of Gen and her posse of brave new girls are Big Daddy Mainframe, the omnipresent omniprocessor of a military-industrial complex and his offsider Circuit Boy, a fetishized replicant of the perfect human HeMan, and a dangerous technobimbo. All New Gen's mission of sabotage is to act as a virus in cyberspace, infiltrating and corrupting the fathernet of power and ambition. All New Gen comments on ethics and technological developments, the relationship of the body to technology, and the representation of gender roles in popular culture and aims to ironically deconstruct the conventions and cliches of computer games and cyber punk fictions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About VNS Matrix -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (html by Lachlan Brown) -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold