Total Refusal
Artist
Leonhard Müllner (AT)
Robin Klengel (AT)
Michael Stumpf (AT)
TOTAL REFUSAL
Digital Disarmament Movement (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)
The vast majority of contemporary video games is characterized by combative gameplay.
This seems especially remarkable now that video games have long arrived in the
entertainment mainstream and have managed to drop the boy’s room stigmata.
With gaming becoming both commercially and culturally more and more relevant,
the question arises how artists can modify and make use of this media for their own
purposes. In “Total Refusal”, artists Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf
aim to peacefully appropriate the existing mechanics of digital gaming media in order
to find new use for their virtual combat zones. As such, “Total Refusal” is a pacifistic
statement, realized in digital space.
Money is a Form of Speech
- © Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf
- © Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf
- © Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf
- © Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf
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