ANITA FONTAINE AND MIKE PELLETIER’S CUTEXDOOM II

Today’s sinister art overload and currently on view in Amsterdam’s Maxalot gallery, the second installment of Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier’s playable art installation, CuteXdoom II. In this version, created as an Unreal Tournament 3 mod:

Sally Sanrio wakes up from her paroxysm to find herself in a familiar, yet changed, environment. Upon drinking a liquid nearby, she notices that the cute environment she once sought to enter is becoming increasingly strange and distorted. She realises that she has been poisoned. Once sweet characters now appear malevolent, predatory; the landscape becomes surreal and sinister, graphic forms are elegant, and almost cruel. In this altered state of perception she realises that the cult of CuteXDoom was not what she thought it would be, and that she must fight the effects of the poison to find the antidote and escape.

The project is an updated version of their 2005 original (and slightly more cuddly) Cute X Doom, done in the first UT engine, in which Sally had to “join a supermodern religious cult who believes the worship of cute material objects will lead to happiness and enlightenment,” by collecting plush mascots to please the cult’s robotic panda guru (!).

See more game/art crossovers via Fontaine’s site, or via a secondary Cute X Doom page. [via Creative Review]