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Journey to Lavender Town (2019)
A 27-hour long video piece created by hacking a version of Pokémon Red for Game Boy.
Using a specially-modified emulator, I created a version of the game where the player's data is randomly written into the data for the game cartridge - in particular the data that represents the creatures that live in the virtual ecosystem.
Over the course of 27 hours the game world corrupts, succumbing to ever-increasing entropy. Even the most basic of actions become slow, repetitive and incomprehensible.
Entropy is the fate of all things. It is the heat death of the universe, it is the demise of humanity due to climate change, and it is the driver of the phenonomenon we perceive as time.
To reflect the themes of time and entropy, the video is presented as a still life. Drawing on the Vanitas still life paintings, the video is presented alongside plants, candles and clocks, all changing over the course of the video.
Journey to Lavender Town was exhibited at The Overkill Festival in Enschede, The Netherlands, in November 2019.
Exhibition Photos
Photos from The Overkill Festival 2019 in Enschede, The Netherlands
