cis_inf_battledroid.png, 2022
Ink on canvas, plywood, MDF board
47 x 47 x 47 cm
cis_inf_battledroid.png (2022) is one of several custom made seats, created specifically for Non-Player Character (2022), a looping CGI video by Bob Bicknell-Knight exploring non-player character’s (NPCs) in video games as a vehicle to speaking about how human beings navigate through an increasingly codified and controlled existence.
The work observes a series of popular NPC enemies falling from the sky into a white, endless space, breaking into small pieces to be subsequently recycled and reused to create endless copies of their own selves. The seats are made up of printed canvas featuring the video game textures from a number of the enemy NPCs included in the film.
cis_inf_battledroid.png has been included in the following exhibitions:
– Non-Player Character, curated by Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns (Off Site Project). At Klaipėda Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, LT, 20th January – 19th February 2023.
– Non-Player Character. At Galeria Kollektiva, Kassel, DE, 29th July – 21st August 2022.
BOB BICKNELL-KNIGHT 