archive: Digital Play: Reloaded
Posted on Saturday, May 21 @ 04:30:43 CEST by rebecca |
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DIGITAL PLAY: RELOADED
Museum of the Moving Image NY. 10 innovative digital games to an upgraded version of Digital Play, the Museum's interactive exhibition of video games and game-based art.
Open weekends March 18 to May 30 2005
Pac-Mondrian is an irreverent fusion of video games and fine art, as Toru Iwatani’s iconic yellow sphere munches his way through Piet Mondrian's modernist artwork Broadway Boogie Woogie. This will be the first and only showing of Pac-Mondrian in the United States. Pac-Mondrian will be shown alongside the original arcade game Ms. Pac-Man (1981).
Other new installations in Digital Play: Reloaded include Arcadia (2004), an arcade-style PC game from the independent game studio Gamelab, which challenges audiences to play four arcade-style video games at one time; the absurd and engaging Japanese game Katamari Damacy which, roughly translated, means “soul of clump,� and refers to a rolling ball of detritus controlled by the player; and Stepmania, an independently created, open-source version of the arcade dance game phenomenon, Dance Dance Revolution. Unlike its commercial counterpart, Stepmania incorporates audiences’ music collections and dance patterns, which are shared online.
The addition of video game-based art adds a new, provocative twist to the Museum’s existing Digital Play exhibition, which is organized around the theme of action in its different uses and interpretations. Music-, dance-, and movement-oriented video games originating in Japan constitute a shift from traditional, often violent game scenarios. Classic arcade games from the 1980s are paired with current home-based games to contrast their approaches to such action-related topics as driving and waging battle on land and in space. Though the graphics have changed significantly, patterns of play remain similar.
Museum of the Moving Image
35th Ave at 36th St
Astoria, NY 11106
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