Madame Polly Game Patch
by Anne-Marie Schleiner
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/amschle/PollyGunn.html
This project takes as it's point of departure the recently emerged
computer game genre of "1st person shooter/adventure with female
heroine." The project makes use of subversive art tactics to infiltrate
the predominately male domain of computer gaming culture and deconstruct
varied gender/subject configuration within this realm. Info bytes
embedded in computer terminals within the game provide keys to Madame
Polly's polymorphous identity. The computer game plug-in or patch offers
the means for the "culture hacker" as artist to create a game which
functions simultaneously as legitimate game, feminist parody and art. At
the Madame Polly Website, the patch (which plugs into the Marathon game
engine) is available for download.
Announcing Madame Polly the Game Patch
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Type: discussion