<nettime> pacifism in video games

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"Bobig => Free Artist" a *crit :

> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De : Joshua Goldberg <josh@goldbergs.com>
> À : nettime <NETTIME-L@bbs.thing.net>
> Envoyé : vendredi 14 avril 2000 05:50
> Objet : Re: <nettime> pacifism in video games
>
> > How misguided.
> >
> > Civil disobedience and pacifist action only works in the context of making
> > the violent and repressive forces ashamed of their own actions.  By
> > sitting and meditating in UT fragspaces, all you do is provide easy
> > targets and ways to increase their ngStats.
> >
> > Even if it was for more of an artistic reason than a social one, it's
> > still hollow.
>
> ==>  it was our first artistic action in video games.most significant is to
> do it .
>
> > Who's going to know it's art?  Who's going to care?
>
> ==> me i know it's art.it's my first goal.
>
> >
> > Now, if you managed to get together a group of say 100 or so people
> > playing UT who all signed on to public servers at the same time, with
> > coordinated skins and actions, you could do something that people would
> > notice.  They might not even blow you away.
>
> ==>people can follow this example.it was the goal of my post in nettime.
> you  can do anything in a videogames like on a canvas.
> soon i'm going to draw on a wall with my machine gun...

jodi did it
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>
>
> > They might even play along.
> >
> > I think that THAT'S a good idea.  People interested in doing this- for art
> > and NOT to Stop The Violence- should drop me a line.
> >
>
> ==> you can do this for art and to stop the violence too.
>  you can do anything in video games.
>
> amicalement  bobig  (sunday artist)
>
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