Nathan Vieland

Nathan Vieland adapts stylistic elements from Surrealism and vignette illustration into computer generated animation and virtual environments. The Sur- prefix, meaning over or above the real, is used to examine difficult issues from a playful visual realm. In his CGI animation, War Loop, he takes up the medium of the video game as a powerful recruitment tool and battle simulator. Establishing an allegory of the military quagmire, this work brings up topics of war, violence, and control that current history is reluctant to write of.