Artist 3

Mary Flanagan is a New Media artist who uses first person shooter games to send a message to a select audience. One of her most famous art pieces is domestic which uses the game Unreal Tournament, a first person shooter game, and turns it into a way to create a "home-like environment for the exploration of childhood memories and feelings." She uses photographs and text to portray her message to the people playing it. Her style of art forces people to really think about the messages instead of just going through the game with no real purpose. I am attracted to her work because I have played many first person shooter games and never saw anything that really made me think of certain memories. She uses a feminist way of going about these otherwise male dominated games and intertwines certain features that draw many girls to her work. She tries to make the games more personal and Flanagan tries to bring some sort of social value to the games. Flanagan's purpose is to take people away from the violence and put them in a position where the player is actually thinking about what he is doing.