Day: December 14, 2005
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unrealart
Besides the ↵White Room there now is yet another fine instance of the appropriation of computergames by fine art, Alison Mealey’s ↑Unrealart: All artworks have been created using data from the game “Unreal Tournament”. Each image represents about 30 mins of gameplay in which the computers AI plays against itself, there are 20-25…
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play and violence
↑Static, the ↑London Consortium‘s online journal, ↑aims at initiating “interdisciplinary intellectual debate about paradoxes of contemporary culture, Static presents contributions from an international team of academics, artists and cultural practitioners.” The ↑first issue‘s core topic was play and violence—the ↑editorial sounds very promising: During the month of July 2005, the London Consortium organised a…