On Friday 25 January 2013 at 2400h, the project Videoart at Midnight presents the four video installations Serious Games I-IV (2010) by the German documentary filmmaker and media artist Harun Farocki. Since some four years, the collector Ivo Wessel and the gallery owner Olaf Stüber present video art once a month at the cinema Kino Babylon in Berlin-Mitte. The four works by Farocki address training methods by the U.S. military and computer-based support of soldiers affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. Passing between war games, war simulations and real war seems to become increasingly fluent.
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Farocki combines sequences from computer simulated mission scenarios in Afghanistan and Iraq with training soldiers. In Serious Games I: Watson is Down (8′) the artist addresses death in simulations. Serious Games II: Three Dead (8′) shows the training at an artificial training centre – but the “Iraqi”/”Afghan” town appears as if it were transfered from a computer simulation into reality. Serious Games III: Immersion (20′) and Serious Games IV: A Sun without Shadow (8′) address post-traumatic stress disorder: for its treatment, the soldiers use game-based simulations, similar to those used in training them beforehand.
The artist will be present.
Videoart at Midnight #41: Harun Farocki
Fr 25 January 2013, 2400h
Admission free
Cinema Babylon
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30
10178 Berlin-Mitte
Germany