GTA 5 Used To Explore Modern Youth Mindset

While it quite clearly isn't the game's vocation, artists have used GTA 5 in various, unique ways before. It was utilized by a french artist to simulate the chaotic randomness of death during terrorist attacks shortly after the incidents in Paris. Rockstar often shares batches of fan art which hit exceptional levels — often containing a few works more deviant than pictures — to the Newswire.

In spite of — or because of — the game's controversial nature, it seems that those with an artistic twinge are somewhat drawn to it, to using GTA 5 as their canvas of choice. While the Rockstar Editor, such as it were, is usually used to create crude parodies of Television opening sequences, provides budding filmmakers and artists of all walks with a great channel of expression.

This time around two British artists decided to utilize GTA 5. The two are otherwise dealing with the works of Frantz Fanon. Fanon was a psychiatrist and influential anti-colonialist and Marxist philosopher. His works have contributed to the rise of various national liberation movements across the globe. He himself fought in the Algerian War for Independence back in the day.

Their "Finding Fanon" series is mostly dedicated to exploring post-colonial ideas, how globalism and the digital age has aided in the reconciliation between societies. It looks at how those who were oppressed mere decades ago today count their former oppressors among their friends.

As the "gaiden" (anime fans should be familiar with the meaning) word in the new work suggests, it is a bit of a deviation from the primary line of their series. This installment includes various quasi-interviews with people between the ages of 16-19, to get a picture of their world- and self views. Their responses were recorded, their likeness recreated as a GTA Online character and recorded in the Rockstar Editor as if the character was saying their words.