GVA: Why did you specifically choose a video game to make art? What do you find especially fascinating about this medium? Its interactivity? Agency? Aesthetics? Theatricality?
Marco Mendeni: More than any other medium, video games allow us to live an artificial reality: this is the aspect that truly fascinates me. Videogames are extraordinarily malleable because they are constantly evolving and, over the years, they have appropriated the features of other media and somehow reinvented them all. Thus, video games are a kind of meta-medium. Consider the imminent introduction of virtual reality displays like the Oculus Rift et similia. How they will affect our understanding of the world? Will we get used to live in another reality? I find this possibility both terribly exciting and scary at the same time. It looks like we are headed in this direction, that is, coexisting in multiple planes of reality. The video game - what a seemingly innocuous name! - is now becoming quite real… A few years ago Facebook seemed a fun thing to do but today we recognize it for what it truly is: a monstrous mechanism. I wonder if the same will happen with video games…