EVENT: KENT SHEELY (JULY 9 - JULY 22 2021, ONLINE)

Kent Sheely

Ice Cream President

digital video, black and white, sound, 06’ 37” (United States)

July 9 - July 22 2021

Introduced by Matteo Bittanti

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Fifteen years after its first appearance, Hitman: Blood Money’s disarming yet lethal ice cream truck returns in this bleak machinima that focuses on a much bigger tragedy. What happens when the video game imaginary breaks the fourth wall and enters the so-called “reality”? You may get two scoops of Ice Cream President.

Kent Sheely (b. 1984, United States) is a new media artist based in Los Angeles. His work draws both inspiration and foundation from the aesthetics and culture of video games, examining the relationships between real and imagined worlds. Much of his work centers around the translation and transmediation of symbols, concepts, and expectations from game space to the real world and vice versa, forming new bridges between simulation and lived reality.

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KENT SHEELY: READY FOR ACTION #10

AMERICAN NEW MEDIA ARTIST KENT SHEELY HAS PRODUCED ANOTHER VIDEO IN THE ONGOING SERIES READY FOR ACTION. EMULATING THE STYLE OF CCTV FOOTAGE AND SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, SHEELY USES SEVERAL VIDEO GAMES TO CREATE SITUATIONS AT ONCE HUMOROUS AND SINISTER. 

Like the previous nine, the tenth installment features avatars at the mercy of public transportation. Audio from the game has been blended with audio captured while waiting for public transportation in the real world. This video was shot with Tom Clancy's The Division (Ubisoft, 2016).

KENT SHEELY

Kent Sheely is a new media artist based in New York City. His work draws both inspiration and foundation from the aesthetics and culture of video games, examining the relationships between the real world and virtual ones. Much of his work centers around the translation and transmediation of symbols, concepts, and expectations from game space to the real world and vice-versa, forming new bridges between simulation and reality

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