Information Hunter Gatherer @ Electric Art

Information Hunter Gatherer, a video game where the player shoots down news headlines and gathers the content of the news story, premiered at the Electric Art Show in Syracuse, NY on April 26, 2008. Using a gun originally intended for the Nintendo Wii, I attempt to draw younger people into the role of news hunters and gatherers. The original impetus for this project was a study of my own behavior when selecting news stories from Internet RSS feeds. I saw myself and began to observe others as consumers of information. This logically brought me to the conclusion that since most Americans are detached from the process of food creation, they replace this primordial survival instinct with the consumption of information. For more information, go to http://installationspace.com/spaces/exhibition/2008/04/27/information-hunter-gatherer-electric-art-42608/