Fantasia Malware Presents is a tiny cross section of the fizzing underbelly of video games – a late capitalist medium wrenched free from the grasp of the marketing team to make boundless alien dream worlds.
In the game are …
… SEX! At Alexanderplatz
SEX! At Alexanderplatz is a performance and dating game set in hell (Alexanderplatz). Crank the lever of your dating app, let the slot machine spin, let sparks of fury fly, let lonely hearts die (alone). Join them at the climactic anti-climax of Fantasia Malware Presents 2022 for anal sex in the Alexa food court toilet and heartbreak under the TV Tower.
… Fragrance Point by Halber Ball
Staccato high-heeled smiling heart-faced bezier-hipped machine-being dancing like a weighted pendulum in a thatched shiny metallic room. Organic – round – artificial – sexy and sexless. An ice-cold glass dildo crossed with an early 2000’s Windows Media Player music visualisation, always pulsing never throbbing. A game about trying to get to a party or making some friends, whatever happens first.
After these two game performances they will have a DJ set by Bungalovv.
Fantasia Malware is a collective and label that makes fantastical, magical, corrupt, chaotic software. They develop and publish experimental video games and live performances. The members of Fantasia Malware are Chloê Langford, Jira Duguid and Gabriel Helfenstein.
This year they have hosted four events in the series Fantasia Malware Presents – centered around using videogames in live performance. For each of the first three events, one member of Fantasia Malware presented a solo project and invited an artist from the growing community of people using videogame technology to make weird art. This final event features a new game performance developed by all three members of Fantasia Malware together.
