Unstable Aesthetics

Throughout the 1990s artists experimented with game engine technologies to disrupt our habitual relationships to video games. They hacked glitched and dismantled popular firstperson shooters such as Doom1993 and Quake1996 to engage players in new kinds of embodied activity. In Unstable Aesthetics Game Engines and the Strangeness of Art Modding Eddie Lohmeyer investigates historical episodes of art modding practicesthe alteration of a game systems existing code or hardware to generate abstract