VIDEO GAMES AND WAR IMAGES
TALK
2016
After the Archive
5533, Istanbul
Hasan Özgür Top’s artistic practice ranges from installations to archives on propaganda videos of ISIS. In this talk, Top talks about his working process and methodology with examples from materials that compose his vast archive. Taking his own artistic practice as a starting point, he comments on various aspects of ISIS propaganda videos distributed via the internet. Visual representation of radical organizations is being discussed in the light of their leaders’ actions and public statements. In conclusion, Top examines the links between computer games and ISIS propaganda videos from a historical perspective.
https://afterthearchive.org/2017/12/04/hasan-ozgur-top-computer-games-and-images-of-war/