1. WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age
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Jasmin Klumpp, Meral Ziegler, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Larry Achiampong, David Blandy, Peggy Ahwesh, Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, Ed Atkins, LaTurbo Avedon, Meriem Bennani, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Cao Fei, Ian Cheng, Harun Farocki, Basmah Felemban, Ed Fornieles, Sarah Friend, The Institute of Queer Ecology, JODI, Rindon Johnson, KAWS, Keiken, Kim Heecheon, Lawrence Lek, LuYang, Gabriel Massan, Lual Mayen, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Frances Stark, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Sturtevant, Transmoderna, Suzanne Treister, Theo Triantafyllidis, Angela Washko, Thomas Webb, Julia Stoschek, Rahel Aima, Kathrin Beßen, Agnieszka Skolimowska, Giampaolo Bianconi, Sasha Bonét, Irene Bretscher, Sophie Cavoulacos, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Mike Connor, Raphaëlle Cormier, Travis Diehl, Rebecca Edwards, Marion Eisele, Mary Flanagan, Richard Grayson, Tamara Hart, Kathrin Jentjens, Adèle Koechlin, Aude Launay, Malte Lin-Kröger, Toke Lykkeberg, Aïcha Mehrez, Anika Meier, Ana Ofak, Christiane Paul, Anna-Alexandra Pfau, Sarah Rifky, Tina Rivers Ryan, Elisa Schaar, Elena Vogman, Joni Zhu, Matthias Theis, Ahmed Shukur, Şirin Şimşek, Anne Diestelkamp, Luise Pilz, Tas Skorupa, Volker Ellerbeck, Art language, Office Ben Ganz, Chase Booker, Pablo Genoux, Jake Truax, Jasmin Klumpp, Meral Ziegler, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Larry Achiampong, David Blandy, Peggy Ahwesh, Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, Ed Atkins, LaTurbo Avedon, Meriem Bennani, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Cao Fei, Ian Cheng, Harun Farocki, Basmah Felemban, Ed Fornieles, Sarah Friend, The Institute of Queer Ecology, JODI, Rindon Johnson, KAWS, Keiken, Kim Heecheon, Lawrence Lek, LuYang, Gabriel Massan, Lual Mayen, Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, Frances Stark, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Sturtevant, Transmoderna, Suzanne Treister, Theo Triantafyllidis, Angela Washko, Thomas Webb, Julia Stoschek, Rahel Aima, Kathrin Beßen, Agnieszka Skolimowska, Giampaolo Bianconi, Sasha Bonét, Irene Bretscher, Sophie Cavoulacos, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Mike Connor, Raphaëlle Cormier, Travis Diehl, Rebecca Edwards, Marion Eisele, Mary Flanagan, Richard Grayson, Tamara Hart, Kathrin Jentjens, Adèle Koechlin, Aude Launay, Malte Lin-Kröger, Toke Lykkeberg, Aïcha Mehrez, Anika Meier, Ana Ofak, Christiane Paul, Anna-Alexandra Pfau, Sarah Rifky, Tina Rivers Ryan, Elisa Schaar, Elena Vogman, Joni Zhu, Matthias Theis, Ahmed Shukur, Şirin Şimşek, Anne Diestelkamp, Luise Pilz, Tas Skorupa, Volker Ellerbeck, Art language, Office Ben Ganz, Chase Booker, Pablo Genoux, and Jake Truax
- Abstract
WORLDBUILDING examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art with a journey through various ways in which artists have interacted with video games and made them into an art form. In the words of the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist: “In 2021 2.8 billion people—almost a third of the world’s population—played video games, making a niche pastime into the biggest mass phenomenon of our time. Many people spend hours every day in a parallel world and live a multitude of different lives. Video games are to the twenty-first century what movies were to the twentieth century and novels to the nineteenth century.” The aesthetics of games entered artistic practice decades ago, when artists began to integrate, modify, and subvert the visual language of video games to address issues of our existence within virtual worlds. Some artists have also brought to light a critique of games from within the system itself by highlighting discriminatory and stereotypical aspects of commercial and gaming logics. More recently, artists have begun to harness the mainstream power of gaming to communicate new forms of engagement that reach the massive audience of this borderless global industry. From single-channel video works to site-specific, immersive, and interactive environments, WORLDBUILDING encompasses over thirty artworks from the mid-1990s to the present. Works from the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION—some of them especially adapted for the exhibition— will be joined by newly commissioned works. Including video, virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI), and game-based works, most of the works are interactive and openly invite visitors to immerse themselves in the multitude of alternative realities created by artists, spanning past, present, and future…, https://www.librarystack.org/worldbuilding-gaming-and-art-in-the-digital-age/?ref=unknown
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- 2022