Adam Killer

“A gibbed dissent on a Calvin Klein billboard, Brody seeds his prolific practice of game data refurbishments atthe very ramp of the first-person shooter’s most popular taboo - wanton and hapless representative killing. Hispost-punk operation on the first person camera leaves us without a stable ground for mournful debate on thegenre’s dubious preoccupations, rather positions the first-person shooter as a laboratory for experimenting withdying, and even laughing about it.” -Julian Oliver, www.selectparks.net, 2000An iconic example of early computer game modification art, Adam Killer is a series of modifications of thepopular first person shooter game Half-Life. The player/performer navigates through a game level filled withmultiple copies of the same character being “idle” on a white plane. As the characters are mutilated with differentweapons, an exploited glitch in creates a harsh trailing effect. This turns the environment into a chaotic mess ofbloody, fractured textures. Adam Killer is disseminated as DVD documention of game play.