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You may have thought (hoped?) book/media burning was a thing of the past, but this Saturday, a town some 30 miles from Newtown, Connecticut, the site of a horrific elementary-school shooting last month, will hold a violent video games drive. Organizers will collect violent video games, throw them in
Art
We hate to discuss art trends because it makes art sound like fashion, but, alas, they're real and they happen. Remember that whole "prop paintings up on objects" trend last year, well, this year I\we spotted a few things we wanted to point out as the year comes to a close.
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LOS ANGELES — An 11,000 square foot warehouse in the heart of LA's Arts District, large-scale exhibitions, exciting speakers, and interactive workshops. Residencies for some of the world's most talented game designers. And a research lab designed to support game researchers around the world. This is
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Hyperallergic has learned that through a quiet acquisition process undertaken over the past year led by architecture and design curator Paola Antonelli, the Museum of Modern Art has brought 14 video games into its collection as a "new category" of artwork.
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If there was ever any doubt that video games are one of our era's strongest forms of art (I'm looking at you, Roger Ebert), the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition The Art of Video Games should have erased them. The mammoth exhibition featured over 80 games, with playable consoles, concept
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It’s a sunny Friday morning in midtown Manhattan, and at the education building of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the second day of the conference “Critical Play — The Game as an Art Form” begins its debates. I'm no video gaming expert, but with 50 other physical attendees and many more over live
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Until this Thursday, an arcade of interactive artistic video games is up at Postmaster’s Gallery in Chelsea. This mix of lo-fi and hi-res graphics, raw exposed circuit boards and games with clever gotcha moments, was a jolt of quirky joy on a cold Saturday afternoon.
Interview
Pippin Barr works and teaches at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University in Copenhagen, and readers of Hyperallergic will know him as the guy who created "The Artist Is Present" video game, which has already become an online sensation. I caught up with Barr online to ask him about "Th
Opinion
Since 8-bit everything is so in nowadays, it should be no surprise that the geeks (I admit, I can be one) are combing over vintage (and more recent) video games to find glimpses of art and other visual treats. Here are some screenshots that would make the art set look twice when they partake in vide
Opinion
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.
Art
Remember Oakley M-Frame sunglasses? They’re supposed to look like the future, with gradient lenses in a variety of neon colors and knotted frames that bear a resemblance to tensed muscle and ligaments. What they actually look like is a future imagined from the 1980s, in which some mixture of cyberpu
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Tomorrow marks the opening of Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools, a full floor of new and recent work by the artist at the Whitney Museum. Lucky you, you get to see it a day early! I previewed the exhibition and came back with a photo essay featuring bowling video games, photoshop gradients, bad golfers and e