Artist John Paul Bichard was none too happy with my criticism of his art exhibit: The White Room.
To be fair, I'm letting him respond to my post, which charged him with copyright infringement.

Bichard on Bichard:

I don t just take screenshots randomly I took a long time to find the right game rejected Doom 3 played MP2 3 times through, spent days in developer mode finding the right locations, then it took literally hours to find and create the scenes many of the screen grabs were discarded. And I take it very seriously the show was with some of the country s leading photographers and I saw it as an opportunity to bring the video game space into a high art context I have always worked hard at getting people to look at games seriously and not just dismiss them as teenage obsessive bullshit.

I m not saying this to *prove* that this is art I make work that is intended to be art you decide whether it is or not I m just surprised at the level of suspicion I m getting from gamers when I am a gamer myself I use games because, for me, the games space is not that far removed from my everyday space and the differences and similarities fascinate me.

The White Room [The House in the Middle]

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