6 Amazing Video Game Art Installations
You might not know Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl by name, but odds are good you've seen his work floating around the Web. Remember the massive Google Maps marker? What about the USB drives that popped up in brick walls across NYC? How about the time he helped build a fake Google Street View car, then pretended to track it with GPS and record the driver's antics?
Like those infamous examples, much of Bartholl's work centers around public installations and interventions that explore what happens when the digital concepts enter the real world. From time to time, he's turned that lens on video games, drawing inspiration from everything from Counter Strike and Need for Speed to Second Life and World of Warcraft. The results are always clever, usually entertaining, and, above all else, profoundly thought provoking.
Here are six of Bartholl's gaming themed works, presented with a bit of background on the games that inspired them.
