Screenshots
Jon Haddock, 2000

Links
http://dir.salon.com

http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu

Screenshots is a series of images rendered in isometric 'god' style computer gaming perspective. The events described by the images are culturally significant whether taken from world history or television history. Real events are not given greater respect than fictional events. These pieces of history came to him (and most others) through the same medium - TV. And therefore is afforded the same level of importance - regardless of their fictional content.

The images are extremeley simplified. Again, buying into the 'sims aesthetic'. It renders the historic scenes into playful yet 'controlled by the viewer' perspectives.
"For me," says Haddock, "there is something about all these events that I don't really understand or accept. Looking at them from the perspective of control is an attempt to understand or, at least, try to contain them.

Submitted by
Daniel Hirschmann

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