Dimension: 22.3 (w) x 25.2 (h) cm | 8.78" x 9.9"
4 colour Risograph
Printed on 170gsm uncoated acid-free paper
Subtle imperfections may vary
Knuckles & Notch (2023)
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This poster was designed by Knuckles & Notch to accompany Rafi Abdullah's Endgame interactive gamebook series for our Gachapon capsule project: Let's Play Ball – Art That Fits in Your Palm for Singapore Art Week 2023.
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Endgame takes inspiration from Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) interactive gamebooks popular in the 1980s and is an exploration of choice, chance, and world-building. The work is developed together in collaboration with text-generating Artificial Intelligence (AI) models trained on datasets of archival CYOA books.

Through sessions of prompting, editing, and conversations with an AI, a series of ending sequences for a fictional short CYOA game book were generated and then translated into visual imagery through text-to-image generator AI models.

The entire process then becomes an exercise in gacha mechanics: a game of chance.
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Rafi Abdullah is a writer and cultural worker whose broad interest is in contemporary art vis-a-vis the politics of aesthetics. Most recently, he has written about how old and emerging technology has provided vantage points for new knowledge-making, agencies, and navigating complications of contemporary living.
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