How video game modders are changing the art scene – Interview with Eddie Lohmeyer

Eddie Lohmeyer is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida, USA. He studies aesthetic and technical developments within histories of digital media, with an emphasis on video games and their relationship to the avant-garde. Additionally, his art considers embodied experience through processes of play and defamiliarization. We spoke about artists who mod games and his research and art. {Unstable Aesthetics: Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding (Bloomsbury, 2021)

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