Video: End of the Virtual World by Robert Overweg
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No matter how much time we spend in virtual space, no matter how much effort, emotions, money we invest there, it will never become real, it always has certain rigid boundaries and even an end. This idea is illustrated by the artist Robert Overweg in a series of his photographs entitled "The end of the virtual world".
With the advent of personal computers in every home, with the advent of the Internet available to everyone, more and more people already practically live in virtual space. Someone sits on forums and social networks for tens of hours a day, someone continuously surfs the Internet from morning to evening, someone works on the Internet, someone experiences stormy romance novels in it, someone day in and day out kills virtual opponents - bots or gamers like him.
We spend more and more time in virtual space, we put more and more energy into it, we experience more and more emotions there. Someone's virtual life is much more developed than real life. And it is already difficult to understand which one is more real.
But all the same, spending hours in front of a computer screen, one should not forget that the world in it is not real. That it has a huge number of restrictions, many rigid and unexpected boundaries that cannot be crossed.
This is what the artist Robert Overweg says in a series of his photographs entitled "The end of the virtual world". After all, it includes photographs from the most famous computer games - Left 4 dead 2, Half-life 2, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
These photographs depict the "ends of the world", rigid boundaries that the player cannot cross. This is both a ribbon at the entrance to the tunnel and just the end of the image, an abrupt termination of reality.
An excellent illustration of the limitedness of the virtual world, its secondary nature and imperfection in comparison with the real world. After all, unfortunately, many people forget about it.
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