The Art of War

In this brief video I use simple editing techniques to explore the moment of a kill. Implicit in this study is a challenge to those who make a simple equation between real-life violence and virtual violence enacted within the video game. This video represents a rare instance (thus far) of recorded action within a virtual environment being used as a research tool for the ethnographic analysis of a virtual community.

The Art of War is a two minute video that captures action from my own participation in a modified version of the Battlefield 2 online game known as Project Reality. In it you see the action from my point of view (first person point of view) as I 'kill' an enemy player, 'blood' spills from his head, and he falls to his 'death'. This brief instance of virtual video ethnography provides an example of how seemingly violent video games can be appropriated and remade into a form of art. It is also intended to challenge the conception that video games are inherently aligned with the celebration of war, imperialism, violence, and murder.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• War
• Battlefield2
• BF2
• Battlefield
• Strangelove
• Culture
• gamer

[Keilink]

absolutly not interesting ...

[birthnight]

This is by far one of the funniest videos i've ever seen on youtube. So funny anybody that likes family guy understands this humor.

[halfcatdemon]

why don't you look at the intent ank meeage broght about by it, look beyond the vidio if you please

[halfcatdemon]

you are getting crule replies.i also note that at first i saw this as stupid,but on further analis of your intent,i see that this is inded briliant.i wish others could use10% of there brain and understand.you take the virtual world and see if for what it is,FAKE.others should see this and if the said player is of age to understand the boundries of reality, then gameing poses no thret to sosioty.als,my mother-tunge is french. my spelling my be bad but i am infact far above you.

[ruessav]

amteurish is too much a kind adjective for that piece of garbage

[DrunkenComando]

Nice short film, or so I would consider it.

[ExplodingSilver]

"very dramatic" my favorite