Artificial Museum
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Description: Total Refusal is a Pseudo-Marxist Media Guerilla collective. We appropriate mainstream video games in order to use their environments and resources to tell new stories and open up new perspectives, removed from the tropes of profit-driven marketing logics.
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Total Refusal is a pseudo-marxist media guerilla focused on the artistic intervention and appropriation of mainstream video games. We upcycle video games in order to reveal the political apparatus beyond the glossy and hyperreal textures of this media.
NPCs are digital Sisyphus machines that have no perspective of breaking out of their activity loops. In the moments when the algorithm shows inconsistencies, the NPCs break out of the logic of total normality, and appear touchingly human.
Dark Tourism in the Mud of Market Garden
Artificial Museum
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