art I'm interested in and don't know how to categorize

“ During the Tekken Torture Tournament performance, 32 willing participants received bracing but non-lethal electrical shocks in correspondence to the injuries sustained by their onscreen avatars. Players wore shocking arm straps wired through a hardware/software hack of the world’s most popular fighting Playstation game TEKKEN 3.” -eddostern.com

I found myself swinging on a pendulum between horror and detachment to this gore. Take a look. 

“In 1996, two Swedish art students created what is now considered the first example of an artistic modification of a videogame in Scandinavia, if not in the world. Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup started their artistic career with a scandal and continued to push the boundaries of art with “Museum Meltdown”, a piece where the relatively conservative conventions of the art world imploded when they collided with videogames.” -Mathias Jansson speaking about the first 1996 version of Museum Meltdown in an interview with the artists for gamescenes.org

“In the late1980s I was making paintings about computer games. In January 1991 I bought an Amiga computer and made a series of fictional videogame stills using Deluxe Paint II. I photographed them straight from the screen as there was no other way to output them that I knew of. Also, the effect of the photographs perfectly reproduced the highly pixellated, raised needlepoint effect of the Amiga screen image. Conceptually this means of presentation was also appropriate in that it made it seem like I had gone into a videogame arcade and photographed the games there, lending authenticity to the fiction. This series was shown in London at the Edward Totah Gallery in March 1992 and later that year at the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide Australia. The original Amiga floppy disks are now corrupt but the original photographs/works still exist.” -Suzanne Treister on her website, suzannetreister.net

Oliver Laric, Versions

"A video-game gunman, a flock of herons, and an island of plants endlessly mix and mutate - not only in shape and behavior but also in status: as protagonists, as extras, as props. The camera moves through the simulation like a nature documentarian, uncertain as to what in the frame is truly of interest, hedging on every emergent story. It learns to focus on small disruptions, where lines of influence are revealed and status gets reshuffled. A 'who' becomes a 'what', figure becomes ground, noise becomes information. The only stable view is of change itself. " -- Artforum

“ Since social media became a multibillion-dollar industry they now employ a massive labour force of ‘content moderators’ who remove the offensive material from social networking sites. Although very elusive, content moderators are crucial to understanding this process, they are the ones who decide how much breast is too much breast on Instagram, or remove photos of Osama Bin Laden from search engines. This is done in order to protect, and sometimes divert, the rest of us. “ -Eva and Franco Mattes in an interview with Abandon Normal Devices

Joel Holmberg, You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Ask Yourself, 2015

Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Computer Visions, 2016