i made this. you play this. we are enemies. • 2008

Sequel to the ”game, game, game and again game” project | Portfolio > Art-games

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i made this. you play this. we are enemies. is an art game, interactive digital poem which uses game levels built on screen shots from influential community based websites/portals. The game interface drives the poetic texts, the colliding and intersecting images, sounds, words, movements, a forever changing, reader built poetic wonderland. And using messy hand drawn elements, strange texts, sounds and multimedia layering, the artwork lets users play in the worlds hovering over and beneath what we browse, to exist outside/over their controlling constraints. Your arrow keys and space bar will guide you, with the occasional mouse click begging for attention.

Each day the internet is humming with a million small interventions. From the humoresque mocking of community content sites like Fark, to the net gate keepers Yahoo and Google, partisan political portals like Huffington Post or the open source/file sharing ‘priates’ of Mininova, the web is an easy tool/weapon for meddling/influencing and sharing/forcing /alluring your opinion on whomever clicks. And yet this digiscape is a deceiving and uneasy place, with continual streams of generic expression/content, cute dogs and accident clips, knocking against an incredible range of political/social beliefs hidden beneath the screen. Even short sequences of words, titled links or blinking ads can reveal the strange, wondrous and treacherous.

Published & exhibited

Afterflash: Showcasing Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Essays, The NEXT, 2021. Curated by Dene Grigar.

The Start Show, Ontario College of Art and Design.

Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Prospectives.09 Festival, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, Nevada, 2009. Directed by Joseph DeLappe.

BME Exhibition, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia.

Select impact

Cream Festival, Finalist for the New Media Award, Japan.

Select documentation

Girardeau, Astrid. 2008. "Le site du jour : Nous sommes ennemis". Libération, 5. December, 2008.

Elmcip entry: https://elmcip.net/node/1505

Electronic Literature Directory entry: https://directory.eliterature.org/individual-work/294

Review of the game:
https://www.popmatters.com/66745-i-made-this-you-play-this-we-are-enemies-2496094800.html