October 12th, 2009 by Senna

Brody Condon is a local Los Angeles artist who combines LARPing, video games, and virtual realities and their surrounding cultures in his work.  And as you know images speak louder than words, so check out this video and his website.

Brandon Stosusy describes him: “Brody Condon affixes his own factual and revised history to games, creating a different, personalized sort of digital authoring. Rewriting and defamiliarizing
clichéd gaming tropes, he’s more interested in autobiographical overlaps, the
subsequent subversion of the impulse, and other forms of infestation than straight,
out-of-the-box play. Condon’s artistic universe centers on movements (using literal
game pieces) and the dialogue between Late Medieval radical Protestants, 60’s
and 70’s counterculture, contemporary/mid-century Fascism, and current pop
culture, while folding in roll (and role) playing, outsider Fantasy Art, astral projection,
and 80’s drug culture. It’s more about the spaces he colonizes than playing
the games; the potential violence and the aftermath of trauma rather than the
actual event. Condon’s symbolically and visually rich virtual locales offer an alternate
environment, a place where endless repetition (of death, spastic dancing, or
the most banal half memory) is easily attainable.”

He also works with c-level projects, which you can check out here.

Boy, would we like to collaborate with him!  Thanks Adam Overton (really cool sound artist) for the suggestion!