You Blew It Up presents Night Of Vice an exhibition by Peter Humphrey and Eliot Jones.
Night of Vice is the story of a night in Vice City, the virtual city of the 2002 Grand Theft Auto video game set in a fictional 1980’s Miami; a landmark video game for many reasons, but perhaps most lasting was its aesthetic value, offering an incredibly seductive world and one of the first definitive pictures of a millennial generation’s view of the 1980’s.
It is this virtue that eventually usurped t...
You Blew It Up presents Night Of Vice an exhibition by Peter Humphrey and Eliot Jones.
Night of Vice is the story of a night in Vice City, the virtual city of the 2002 Grand Theft Auto video game set in a fictional 1980’s Miami; a landmark video game for many reasons, but perhaps most lasting was its aesthetic value, offering an incredibly seductive world and one of the first definitive pictures of a millennial generation’s view of the 1980’s.
It is this virtue that eventually usurped the mission-based format of the game. Against the drive to produce things by completing missions and getting rewards was a powerful undercurrent where the world itself seduced you: you, no longer a real player, but a virtual flaneur.
We take our experience of playing this game as a portal into 1980’s culture, channeling it into a musical and visual experience of its own that explores our memory and mythologizing of that decade. In ‘Night of Vice’ the urban landscape of GTA: Vice City is treated as a real location for the shooting of a music video, a night of cruising the streets in a convertible under the neon glow of Ocean Drive as it radiates from our TV screens.
The night will feature an experimental film screening and soundscape with live musical orchestration. Accompanied by a series of lightbox art works
3rd August, for one night only
Art Fix Soho, 27 Peter Street
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