»Max Payne Cheats Only 1« 
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2004, 23 min, color, sound
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Hua Chun Fan 04-05-2017
JODI has compiled cheats from the ultra-violent New York vigilante game Max Payne. In Max Payne Cheats Only, JODI presents a series of alterations to the behaviour of a video game that are often built in by the original programmers to help players who have reached an impasse.
By massively repeating the idiotic movements of the hero, who dips his angular head into a virtual matrix, JODI re-processes the slow motion that enables a new perception of space and time.
"We wanted to do something that was non-aesthetically ours. No scary black blobs on jumping white backgrounds, but trying to achieve the impossible — an abstraction within the aesthetic of a game which is already set.”— JODI
Hua Chun Fan: Max Payne Cheats Only 1, 04-05-2017, in: Archive of Digital Art JODI has compiled cheats from the ultra-violent New York vigilante game Max Payne. In Max Payne Cheats Only, JODI presents a series of alterations to the behaviour of a video game that are often built in by the original programmers to help players who have reached an impasse.
By massively repeating the idiotic movements of the hero, who dips his angular head into a virtual matrix, JODI re-processes the slow motion that enables a new perception of space and time.
"We wanted to do something that was non-aesthetically ours. No scary black blobs on jumping white backgrounds, but trying to achieve the impossible — an abstraction within the aesthetic of a game which is already set.”— JODI
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