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# EVE players get the august monument they deserve
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/they-are-erecting-statue-tribute-eve-so-eve-can-live-forever/
- Published: 2014-02-05T17:18:28.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:25:41.000Z
- Description: Iceland will soon be receiving a dazzling piece of modern art, as CCP, creators of the persistently-hostile online world EVE, are erecting in downtown Reykjavik a monument to the players. The 15-foot-tall structure looks straight out of Battlestar Galactica and will have the names of the main charac
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Art, eve online, MMO, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Iceland will soon be receiving a dazzling piece of modern art, as CCP, creators of the persistently-hostile online world *EVE*, are erecting in downtown Reykjavik a monument to the players. The 15-foot-tall structure looks straight out of *Battlestar Galactica* and will have the names of the main characters of every active *EVE* player etched on it, Vietnam Memorial-style. It’s being created by the Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðmundsson, whose works include installations of hammers, bricks, and slippers positioned on carpet, and photographs of people leaning peculiarly against walls. [No shit](http://www.galerievangelder.com/artists/sgudmundsson%5Fimages2.html?ref=killscreen.com).

This has importance aside from the inherent glamour of having a shiny, stainless steel statue erected. [*EVE* is the most fascinating game in, well, forever](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/articles/feature/biggest-battle-eve-online-came-down-line-score/?ref=killscreen.com), and it’s worth being remembered. But because it’s a living, breathing community of folks who role-play as commanders and slaves on the Internet, and because the whole world plays out in real-time on servers, it’s hard to document. MMOs present a problem of preservation in this way, although [MoMA has made efforts to document and enshrine it](http://www.moma.org/collection/browse%5Fresults.php?object%5Fid=162462&ref=killscreen.com). But with a monument dedicated to this amazing online world that will one day surely collapse, these characters and these wars can live on representatively, and that’s a great thing.