the artist geek that simulates the massacres of video games. In a performance splatter.
by Matteo Bittani

Anyone with a minimum familiarity with video games knows perfectly well that often include intense virtual bloodshed . The electronic medium-like a certain film (splatter) and a television (primarily Dexter)-simulates together and glorify the red liquid in What It Is Without the Hand That Wields It. Riley Harmon has transformed this singular obsession in a work of art. The young American artist has created an installation connected to a PC on which turn Counter-Strike, it violent shooter online, which provides intensive shootings between terrorists and police officers. when a player dies, the computer sends a signal to sensors connected to bulbs containing a red liquid. The capsule is opened and blood simulated “paints” the wall.

Riley says The experiences of mediated ‘murder change our perception of violence and death. When a player dies on a server public Counter strike, the valve solenoid opens some milimeters issuing fake blood on the glass wall, creating a physical manifestation of murderers nebulosi. the question because the video games? Riley responds: The digital game and a philosophical metaphor, a useful tool for exploring the ‘human existence. I like experimenting with electronic ghosts, or with all technologies bones we turn into ghosts in real life, because our mind and always busy to think about what we do in virtual worlds.