»Hotel Synthifornia« 
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© Sylvia Eckermann, Mathias Fuchs
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Sylvia Eckermann >
»Hotel Synthifornia«, 1999
Co-Workers & Funding:
Mathias Fuchshttp://syl-eckermann.net/synthifornia
Technology
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Unreal Mod Game Level.
Descriptions & Essays
Sylvia Eckermann 13-05-2015
"Hotel Synthifornia ironically paraphrases the Eagles all-time-classic: 'Such a lovely place, such a lovely face... Relax!' Find yourself caught by the schizophrenic interpretation of a shoot-up game like Epic Games' Unreal. The semantic shift from shoot-up to chill-down confronts concepts of privacy and self-determination with the notorious public participation of the conventional deathmatch. Under these circumstances public space can prove to be lethal, and as a consequence 'Gemütlichkeit' might be a quality worth while being rediscovered collectively." Micz Flor, Public Netbase
Sylvia Eckermann: Hotel Synthifornia, 13-05-2015, in: Archive of Digital Art "Hotel Synthifornia ironically paraphrases the Eagles all-time-classic: 'Such a lovely place, such a lovely face... Relax!' Find yourself caught by the schizophrenic interpretation of a shoot-up game like Epic Games' Unreal. The semantic shift from shoot-up to chill-down confronts concepts of privacy and self-determination with the notorious public participation of the conventional deathmatch. Under these circumstances public space can prove to be lethal, and as a consequence 'Gemütlichkeit' might be a quality worth while being rediscovered collectively." Micz Flor, Public Netbase
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