First , he showed us theedge of the world . Now , lensman Robert Overweg shows us some beautiful mistake .
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Most people throw their controllers when a glitch ruins a perfectly in force game of Half Life or Grand Theft Auto . Robert Overwegloves it ; he turns it into art .
Overweg is aself - proclaimed“photographer in the practical world . ” In his “ Glitches ” series , he captures whacked - out character and snafued buildings in screenshots that expect like what René Magritte might ’ve produced had he been a big ol’ gambling nerd . These are laughable apocalyptic landscapes render even more idiotic by shooters suspend in mid - air , as if jump off off a trampoline , while a skyscraper sunburn ominously in the aloofness , or , our favorite , by two reference take flight the zombies ofLeft 4 bushed 2and pausing for a homoerotic embrace ( top ) .
How Overweg does it : It ’s “ a compounding of forcing glitches and receive them , ” he tells us in an e-mail . So inLeft 4 drained 2 , an A.I. familiar is programme to follow you within certain leaping , but step outside the bounds , and the characters go a tad haywire . Thus Glitch - hug and Glitch up in the aura ( below )
Here inGrand Theft Auto IV , Overweg used an invisible gap in the wall to effectively slip beneath the biz .
Not all the photo are glitch in the technical common sense . Overweg found this window dressing hacking aroundLeft 4 Dead 2 . “ I was told to go in a certain direction and I decide to go in the opposition only to find this beautiful building , ” he says . “ From a aloofness and a sealed position this would be a normal building . ” facade and building fromHalf spirit 2 :
Aestheticizing glitches is nothing new , and in late days , an entire industriousness has pullulate up around glitch art , gross with aglitch - art symposiumand aglitch - art book . Most of the work looks like a fault . Overweg ’s photos are awing and creepy-crawly because , like Magritte ’s derby hat - hat valet de chambre and day - lit evening street , they ’re misleadingly normal .
You could read all sorting of meaning into these — they ’re a political affirmation about get beauty in cross boundaries ; they ’re questioning the impression of artistic writing ( Overweg ’s photos are unedited screenshots ) ; and so on — but we like them because they count coolheaded . We ’ll leave all that other hooey to theglitch - art theorists .
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