Flying and Floating - Robert Overweg (2005)
Flying and Floating is a project by virtual photography pioneer, Robert Overweg. The photographs are composed of incomplete digital renditions of buildings and their shadows splayed on top of a pleasantly blue sky with haloed puffy clouds. The structures, digital reproductions of an imaginary 1940s New York City from the crime videogame Mafia 2, jut and tumble seemingly unmoored from their ground. The way the facades of buildings are missing, revealing complete nothingness inside, the volumes merely suggested by rendered 2D planes stacked in space, hints at the commonplace glitch in videogames called “clipping”, where the player point of view falls into an area where it was never intended to be. Since the objects are only designed to be seen from, for instance, above the plane of the street, the buildings’ bottom appear transparent. Leveraging this visual “bug” to explore novel spacial projections makes Overweg’s project a clear continuation of deconstructed architecture, but for the X-Box generation.
Artist: Robert Overweg
Link: http://www.shotbyrobert.com/?page_id=1011
Connections:
Charles Sheeler - “The Web (Croton Dam 1955)”
Hélène Binet - “Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art by Zaha Hadid”
Dan Graham - “Two Adjacent Pavilions”