Brody Condon: Fake Screenshot Contest
November 2003
Brody Condon: Fake Screenshot Contest
Fake Screenshot Contest by Brody Condon was a viral competition that invited participants to submit screenshots to symbolize the completion of a game, celebrate the mastery of a challenging level, or simply prove the existence of new titles in the market. Using techniques such as collaging, overlaying, and retouching, Condon made it difficult to tell whether the images from video games captured actual moments or were deliberately created, modified, or manipulated with digital tools. Reflecting on everyday achievements and the culture of the fantasy genre, Condon’s work blurred the boundary between the game world and the real world and questioned the line between representation of reality and artistic forgery.
Brody Condon (b. 1974, Tuxpan, Mexico) facilitates and documents game-like group encounters that experientially probe dissociative phenomena. His work has been presented at the Athens Biennale (2018); Berlin Biennale (2016); Stroom den Haag, Netherlands; Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Momentum: Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), Moss, Norway; Edinburgh Art Festival; MoMA PS1’s Greater New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; New Museum, New York; Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York; and the 2004 Whitney Biennial, among others. He has lectured and taught workshops internationally at institutions including Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Royal Institute of Art Stockholm; Royal College of Art, London; Hammer Museum; School of Visual Arts, New York; The New School, New York; Columbia University, New York; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gate Pages
Every month from March 2001 to February 2006, the Whitney invited an artist or collective to present their work in the form of a “Gate Page” on artport. Each page was meant to function as a portal to the artist’s own sites and projects. The Gate Pages comprise a range of artistic approaches to the format—while some of them are designed as entry points to the respective artist’s website or promote a recently launched work, others take the form of a more complex stand-alone project.
Wherever necessary and possible, these works are made functional through emulation and reconstructions from the Internet Archive. Not all of them have been restored to their original state and their conservation is ongoing. You can also view the original Gate Pages archive to see how they were presented at the time of their creation.
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