{"id":269,"date":"2025-08-25T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/?p=269"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:07:22","slug":"pixelated-politicians-international-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/pixelated-politicians-international-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixelated Politicians International Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldwork"],"acf":{"artwork_title":"Pixelated Politicians International Edition","medium":"Digital Collage","year":2025,"dimensions":"TBC","artwork_statement":"With this piece I began expanding the Pixelated Politicians series beyond the UK. By producing firstly a \"DPRK edition\" of the arcade title screen, I discovered that the meaning of the work deepens when it is internationalised. The interface remains the same - \u00a0grid, HUD, menu options, credit counter - \u00a0but the scenery, flag, and language localise the experience.\r\n\r\nThis repetition raises the question: does the performance of politics change at all for the citizen, or is it always the same game in different cultural dress? The voter or citizen inserts their coin, selects their leader, and the cycle begins again. The screen promises choice, but the system itself is unchanged.\r\n\r\nThe localisation process was revealing. Translating PRESS START into Hangul shifted the tone from a familiar Western gaming clich\u00e9 into something more alien for me but still recognisable as \"arcade logic.\" The flag in the HUD corner also acts as a marker of how politics is \"skinned\" nationally, while the mechanics behind the interface remain identical.\r\n\r\nOn reflection, the expansion of the series to other countries makes the satire stronger. It exposes politics as a global franchise - one machine endlessly reskinned for each territory, but always demanding credits while offering little genuine agency.\r\n\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/usa-edition-300x250.png\" alt=\"USA Edition\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-264\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/chinese-edition-300x250.png\" alt=\"Chinese Edition\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-266\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Russian-Edition-v2-300x250.png\" alt=\"Russian Edition\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-271\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/weapon-select-300x250.png\" alt=\"Weapon Select\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-279\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/select-leader-v2-300x250.png\" alt=\"Leader Select\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-281\" \/>","feature_image":270,"themes":["Digital Collage","Installation","Pop"],"custom_slug":"","":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}