VISUAL ARTS
Reset/Play
September 6-November 2, 2008
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RESET/PLAY surveys several trends in art made about video games and includes works by both emerging and pioneering practitioners in the field.
As Guest Curators, Marcin Roamocki and Paul Slocum point out, games have existed for millennia. Complex multi-player war games and role-playing games have also existed for centuries. The unique trait of video games is that they carry the spectacle of technology in all its forms, and with this, its burden of disposability. They are their own discourse, their own culture. But video games and artworks based on video games are two separate genres. One is a pop cultural, commercial enterprise while the other is a conceptual, postmodern form of fine art.
Among the pioneering figures in conceptual art projects are Cory Arcangel, Alex Galloway, JODI, and Eddo Stern, all of whom have been concerned with purposefully deconstructing games. Another group of artists use machinima/modding, which is a form of filmmaking that uses the game engine to produce linear video material. Artist-made video games which are partially or fully playable game environments comprise a third, yet interrelated, strain of conceptually-based artworks. Finally it is only natural that video game material would bleed into other territories of fine arts. (paraphrase of essay on ArtHouse site.)
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September 6-November 2, 2008Times:
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11:00am-7:00pm, Thursday 11:00am-9:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm, Sunday 1:00pm-5:00pm -
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