Bioshock Infinite (Cook & Becker)

[Maarten Brands]

Finally, with regards to our selection of the imagery. That is always done in conjuction with the studio and time and budget etc. is always a factor.

We did decide on doing more actual in-game pictures of BioShock Infinite because these represent the final product the most accurately. It's nice to juxtapoze that with concept art for a complete whole but in this case most of the concept art images did not have a high enough resolution for our standards to make a decent sized print.

Also we make an effort to make game art & game artists a bigger part of the contemporary art world as a whole because we feel this is significant and these studios and artists are so influential in shaping our time and culture. We therefore sometimes select images like Ice Cream Shop ( a personal favorite) that raises a lot of questions about the scene that you are looking at, even if you don't know the game. We all know those games of course but we also try to find entry points for complete novices in the visual language of games to get a discussion going. We want to please the fans (I am one myself) and try to go a bit offbeat as well.

Sorry for the artyfarty speak