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acbThis afternoon, I went to the eBoy exhibition in Clerkenwell. Most of it was in the authentically industrially dusty basement of what was once a warehouse or such; some of the works were hanging on walls behind archways in dark rooms, giving the whole thing a first-person-shooter feeling. In one room, a slide projector cast a succession of images onto a wall.
The works themselves were largely prints of pixel artwork (with some vector artwork), and were for sale in limited editions at prices from under £100 (a small video-game gun picture) to £1250 (the Super Bronco Battle image being launched). There were some fairly nifty cityscapes (one was a monochrome of an Asian metropolis (only with the text in French); another was an ad for Coca-Cola's music download service, and showed boxes of fresh music being taken from a recording studio to the MyCokeMusic.com building, whence thick pipes labelled "Download" took it to happy people's homes; the places where the DRM padlocks and chains go on were left out), as well as video-game-style pixel portraits of "terrorists" (mostly swarthy-looking Middle Easterners and the odd pizza-faced geek), porno scenes rendered in chunky pixels, and vector portraits of celebrities.
I came out with a large poster of eBoy's cityscape of Berlin; it's now hanging above my bed, and my walled is £12 lighter. Had I a high-paying IT job and a coffee table (or maybe not even that), I might have forked out the £35 for the eBoyHello book.
eBoy are the new Designers Republic.
The works themselves were largely prints of pixel artwork (with some vector artwork), and were for sale in limited editions at prices from under £100 (a small video-game gun picture) to £1250 (the Super Bronco Battle image being launched). There were some fairly nifty cityscapes (one was a monochrome of an Asian metropolis (only with the text in French); another was an ad for Coca-Cola's music download service, and showed boxes of fresh music being taken from a recording studio to the MyCokeMusic.com building, whence thick pipes labelled "Download" took it to happy people's homes; the places where the DRM padlocks and chains go on were left out), as well as video-game-style pixel portraits of "terrorists" (mostly swarthy-looking Middle Easterners and the odd pizza-faced geek), porno scenes rendered in chunky pixels, and vector portraits of celebrities.
I came out with a large poster of eBoy's cityscape of Berlin; it's now hanging above my bed, and my walled is £12 lighter. Had I a high-paying IT job and a coffee table (or maybe not even that), I might have forked out the £35 for the eBoyHello book.
eBoy are the new Designers Republic.
