Aram Bartholl
english / deutsch

WorksExhibitions Blog Upcoming Press&Text CV Contact
What are you waiting for?
sculpture,
acrylic screen print on wood , 600 x 185 x 90 cm
2014















What are you waiting for? represent the hands of Duke Nukem impatiently asking the player to continue to play while cracking his nuckles in a short four frame animation. Duke Nukem is an early first person shooter computer game and was very popular in the years after its release in1996. Very typical for the game genre the hands of the character appear in the foreground of the screen. In fact they represent the hands of the player in point of vision reaching into the digital game space.
The pixel image of the hands is converted into a low resolution half tone screen print grid and manually printed on pine wood boards.

Premiered at 'Hurt me plenty' DAM Gallery, Sept. 2014.

cc Some rights reserved. All content on this webpage is licensed under Creative Commons license by-nc-sa 3.0 . Aram Bartholl 2017