Acedia of Arcadia
- 2022
- Video
- 00:29:30
- Witness the disenchanted gaze of a player who has satisfied every obtainable goal in various videogames, left to only to ruminate on the stillness that erupts from the cessation of desire. Gameplay from different dystopian cyberpunk and dark fantasy games are combined to emphasize a shared graphical affinity for realism, one-point perspective, and sublime landscapes typically used to afford an optimal perspective for strategic manipulation of the game world. Now, all these character models, coded mechanics, and environments are left in a state of infinite play, a game without a game.
Even the infinite must repeat, or it’s not really infinite… right?
