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# Required Reading
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/required-reading-16/
- Published: 2011-06-05T13:58:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:35:19.000Z
- Description: This week's Required Reading features mashed-up video games, a lost e.e. cummings poem, an indie arcade review and a museum just for you.
- Author: Kyle Chayka
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, High Line, Kill Screen, Poetry, Required Reading, Rhizome, Seven on Seven, Video Games, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Friendly creatures from Friends With You (image via friendswithyou.com)

This week’s Required Reading features mashed-up video games, a lost e.e. cummings poem, an indie arcade review and a museum just for you.

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[Tuper Tario Tros.](http://bit.ly/iAIqwV?ref=hyperallergic.com) is a mash-up between Super Mario Bros. and Tetris, as you may have guessed from the title. It’s a strange combination that feels like a deconstruction of video game history: make your own Mario blocks instead of relying on the level.

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Rhizome has [published videos](http://bit.ly/jxOgCk?ref=hyperallergic.com) from its Seven on Seven conference at the New Museum. Click through to check out the full presentations of the artist/technologist collaborations. Those will fill up most of your Sunday morning.

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The Awl publishes a [long lost e.e. cummings poem](http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/a-lost-e-e-cummings-poem-discovered?ref=hyperallergic.com) found by James Dempsey during the course of his research, plus the story of how he found it. Pretty riveting.

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Video games in a gallery context? *Kill Screen* [reviews No Quarter](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/no-quarter-old-men?ref=hyperallergic.com), an NYU-based indie video game arcade. From minimalism to puzzlers, this showcase has it all. Also interesting to compare reviewing styles between art and video games.

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Artist collective Friends With You will be [presenting an installation](http://www.friendswithyou.com/blog/rainbow-city-nyc-?ref=hyperallergic.com) on the High Line’s newly opening section 2 on this coming Wednesday, June 8.

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New York Observer’s BetaBeat writes on Intel’s “[Museum of Me](http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/31/intel-museum-of-me-facebook-freaks-me-out-2011-05-31/?ref=hyperallergic.com)”, a Facebook-based internet application that shows you yourself, online.

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You know what’s hot? Stairs. You gotta love stairs, from spiral stairs to minimalist cantilevered stairs. For fellow stair-lovers, there’s [Stair Porn](http://www.stairporn.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

[*Required Reading*](../tag/required-reading/) *is published every Sunday morning, and it is comprised of a short list of art-related links (10 or less) to long-form articles, videos, blog posts or photo essays worth a second look.*