Career
In 1995, Torsson closely collaborated with artist Tobias Bernstrup with whom he got international recognition as the first group of visual artists to use computer games in their art practice.
Their project, Museum Meltdown, consisted in a series of site specific computer game installations in European art museums. Using the graphic engine of existing video games such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Half-Life they transformed the museum architecture into violent first-person shooter games where the museum visitor could wander around inside a virtual version of the museum killing and blowing up master pieces. Torsson and Bernstrup's early video game based projects and game representations of museums have later been followed by other by artists such as Florian Muser & Imre Osswald, Felix Stephan Huber (Germany), Feng Mengbo (China) and Kolkoz (France).
After his collaboration with Bernstrup, Palle Torsson have continued to work with game related work like Sam exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2001 and Evil Interiors.
Since 2005, he is also working with the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån, especially with the website Art Liberated.
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