Karma Physics, by Brody Condon, is a modification of the first person shooter computer game Unreal 2003. As the viewer camera floats through a pink afterlife, twitching multiples of Elvis are controlled by the original game’s “Karma Physics” real-time physics system – generally used to simulate realistic game character death.
Among Condon’s work are also Waco Resurrection (blogged previously) and Suicide Solution, a DVD documentation collected over the last year of committing suicide in over 50 first and third person shooter games. Video.
Some of his works will be part of Game Paused, a book, DVD, and exhibition to be held in London, Nov 3-13th. You can still submit your work. Participating artists include Roger Ibars, ////fur///, Julian Oliver, Cory Arcangel, etc.
Via Jonah Brucker-Cohen who’s also made an interview of someone I like a lot on gizmodo.
Roger is also showing works at My World, New Crafts, Experimenta Design 05, September 18th – October 30th 2005.