Fear and Loathing in GTA V

All photos taken with the in game camera phone. Capturing the existential despair of virtual reality one snap shot at a time. Leisure project by Morten Rockford Ravn www.mortenrockfordravn.com

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Current Exhibition:

Games Culture,

Kunstverein Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg, DE

Exhibition: 18.08 - 05.11.2017

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Excerpt from Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard.

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Morten Rockford Ravn: Enter Fear and Loathing in GTA V

The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. - Arthur Schopenhauer

"After losing his real camera on a ride in the woods, Danish artist Morten Rockford Ravn stumbled into the virtual world of Grand Theft Auto. Here he found a form to match his growing discontentment surrounding virtual reality through the virtual camera phone. This was back in 2015, roughly a year after Facebook’s 2 billion dollar acquisition of Oculus Rift at the height of the virtual reality hype. As the media machinery pumped up the consumer biceps, flexing flashy headlines about the “revolutionary new technology”, Morten went the other way and explored the darker recesses of his subconscious."

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