Impression, proche orient 2 | Syria
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Minecraft Mausoleum
2011
online video game version of 'mausoleum for a president'
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is known to be a computer geek. He used to be chairman of the 'Syrian Computer Society' and opened up his country to the internet in 2001. In the face of the Arab Spring's general enthusiasm for online tools, Minecraft Mausoleum utilizes Minecraft - an online building game - as context and medium to present a model of a Mausoleum for president Bashar.
Bashar al-Assad is a British-trained ophthalmologist and the eye doctor’s tumbling E eye chart is the alpha and omega of the Syrian IPO chapter. Does Dr. Bashar still dream about tumbling Eye Doctor E charts and the course for Syria they might chart: left, right, up or down?
President Bashar's father Hafez and brother Basil are buried in a vast echoing mausoleum in the city of Qardaha. This M (“E down”) shaped mausoleum might be how Assad's Mausoleum will look like.
ABOUT MINECRAFT:
An online building game which allows players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world. Minecraft is an ‘open world’ game: it is based on a concept where a player can freely roam an infinitive virtual world. The term ‘open world’ alludes to the absence of artificial barriers, in contrast to the invisible walls and loading screens that are common in linear level game designs.
Minecraft Mausoleum © 2011 unknown001