Opinion
New media and internet artist Cory Arcangel often appropriates artifacts from earlier digital times for his artwork. In a series of videos, Arcangel hacks cartridges of the original Nintendo game Super Mario Bros., twisting the game's graphics into surreal reinterpretations.
News
The National Endowment for the Arts now funds a hotly-debated form of art: video games. With the newly designated “Arts in Media” program, $10,000 to $200,000 grants from the organization can now be used to fund the production of digital games, multimedia art work and interactive applications.
Opinion
After a two-month-long public vote, the Smithsonian has released the results of its poll to determine the most important video games in history, for their upcoming The Art of Video Game exhibition. The selection attempts to provide a comprehensive canon of historical video games, but there are a few
Art
Artist Patrick Smith's Windosill, a Flash-based video game that's playable in your internet browser, is a fascinating work both for its slow, subtle game play and its visual inspirations, namely proto-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's empty landscapes and Philip Guston's still-life paintings.
Opinion
Every Sunday, we bring you a list of links from around the web. This is all the stuff we're reading when we're not writing stuff on the blog for you to read! Got that? This week pulls together video game criticizin', magazine illustratin', apartment decoratin' and wine makin'. No matter what the top
Art
Sometime around February 14, an internet phenomenon erupted as Charles Hoey and Pete Smith announced they had found a lost game cartridge for the original Nintendo video game system (NES). This cartridge was an unlabeled video game version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel The Great Gatsby. Depic
Opinion
When I heard about the Smithsonian's upcoming video game exhibition, I was filled with a sense of dread upon reading the press release's bolded title: “Smithsonian American Art Museum Invites Public to Vote on Games to be Featured in “The Art of Video Games” Exhibition”. They tout the voting like it
Opinion
This weekend's Required Reading brings us up to speed on the situation of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, plus catches up on some of the things we missed while breaking the news, from movies demystifying the myth of the artist to video games histories and questions of morality and happiness.
Opinion
Botticelli's original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence's Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of delicately painted elongated figures and an icon of art history. This 8-bit version of the painting by PixelJam [http://www.pixeljam.com/]'s Rich Grilloti is sitting right
Opinion
Ever wanted to be a Chinese red soldier that shoots fireballs instead of spouting slogans, and battles aliens instead of Nationalists? I know, me too. Finally, we all have a chance to play out our CCP fantasies with Feng Mengbo's epic, historicizing video game “Long March: Restart” (2008), now on vi
Opinion
Critic, writer and independent game developer Ian Bogost has created a suite of four games entitled “A Slow Year.” Comprised of a set piece about each of the four seasons, Bogost has made video games into meditations, interactive haiku meant to slow down the player instead of them speed up. Kotaku [
Books
Kill Screen is a highbrow magazine about video games. If this strikes some as a bit of a contradiction, I wouldn't be surprised, but it certainly makes sense to me. Being a young'en, I didn't exactly grow up during the heyday of print journalism. There were no magazines or newspapers or any kind of