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Natalie Maximova – Awaiting Oblivion – England

AWAITING OBLIVION

Natalie Maximova

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Full-length
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Awaiting Oblivion – England

Awaiting Oblivion explores the collapse of simulated reality in The Last of Us II, revealing spaces where boundaries between representation and existence dissolve. As the world fractures into glitches and voids, it exposes the instability of meaning, unmasking the illusion of coherence and confronting the observer with absence at the core of perception. A poetic voiceover amplifies the dissonance between digital precision and fluid, ephemeral ecological and philosophical inquiry.

BIO

Natalie Maximova is a London-based artist and researcher. Her work probes how simulated worlds produce and break meaning. Using machinima, game engines and post-photographic methods, she investigates glitches, edges and out-of-bounds zones, exposing the design logics and politics of mediation that shape how we see and inhabit digital spaces.

JOHANN VAN AERDEN, NICOLAS BOONE

METABUP
FILE FESTIVAL – MACHINIMA

 

“Meta Bup” de Nicolas Boone & Johann Van Aerden constitue un épisode de la série “Bup” qui explore le  “système totalitaire” de la publicité. Cet épisode aux allures de jeu vidéo, a été réalisé dans l’espace “Bup” , construit dans “Second Life”, avec une foule d’avatars convoqués par les artistes pour participer au tournage. Envahi par des messages publicitaires et de propagande pour “Bup” , l’univers de “Second Life” se transforme en un espace où non seulement les avatars mais également ceux qui les commandent sont manipulés par le projet Bup. Le projet “Meta Bup” développe sur un mode ludique et festif une mise en abyme des mécanismes publicitaires.

CHEVAUCHÉE NOCTURNE

Les Riches Douaniers
File Festival – Machinima

Dirigido em 2006 a partir de “Shadow of Colossus”, “Chevauchée Nocturne” (Passeio Noturno) mantém apenas as linhas de formas, usando duas cores, preto e amarelo, que permitem a customização extrema do trabalho. Este maquinema também refere-se à realidade, pelo aparecimento de duas reviravoltas silenciosas. A música e o som são muito importantes. Ambos participam do ritmo, criando expectativa, pois todo diálogo é deletado.

Skawennati

She Falls For Ages
MACHINIMA

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VICTOR MORALES

30 Seconds or More – One Animation a Day
14 – Low Budget Flesh Mandala
File Festival – Machinima

ANNIE OK

My Life as an Avatar 06.08
File Festival – Machinima

Annie Ok is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work is an expression of entropic congruity and organic abstract deconstruction, inspired by nature, science, mathematics, evolution, dysfunction, ambivalence and ambiguity.