AMIGA work  selected fictional videogame stills 1991-1992   In the late1980s I was making paintings about computer games. In January 1991 I bought an Amiga computer and made a series of fictional videogame stills using Deluxe Paint II. I photographed them straight from the screen as there was no other way to output them that I knew of. Also, the effect of the photographs perfectly reproduced the highly pixellated, raised needlepoint effect of the Amiga screen image. Conceptually this means of presentation was also appropriate in that it made it seem like I had gone into a videogame arcade and photographed the games there, lending authenticity to the fiction. This series was shown in London at the Edward Totah Gallery in March 1992 and later that year at the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide Australia. Below are scans of the original photographs. The original Amiga floppy disks are now corrupt. For more information download my essay from 'Videogames and Art', Ed. Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell, Publ. Intellect Books, UK 2007 click to view enlargements
Are you Dreaming? .	Dream Monster .	Easyworld 5 .	Examine the Evidence
Fate worse than Death	Gates of Wisdom .	Incidents reported .	Do you know? .
Lost in Space .	Blinded by the Text	Monster Visions/ SongTitles	Identify the Murder Weapon
Mutant Territories- Grand Prix	Quiz 2 .	No Quiz .	Quiz - 10 Questions .
system message series:	Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise?	Not enough Memory	Presume Virtual Breakdown
Virtual Wilderness .	Software Failure... .	Error finding Question	No Message - Proceed
		..

© Suzanne Treister 1991/1992

Homepage