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Art & Arcade 2014
January 16, 2014 @ 1:00 pm - March 16, 2014 @ 11:00 pm
Artistic Arcade machines from around the world exhibition.
From the website:
Arcade video machines are cult. They first appeared in the United States and Europe in the 1970s, as a new variation on the traditional ‘penny arcades’. Classics such as Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and Tron marked the heyday of electronic video games. Many successful games were later released for use on PCs and video game consoles and thus accelerated the spread of home computers. Many artists use arcade video machines as an artistic medium. Not only do they program arty computer games, they also turn the machines themselves into art objects and installations. The artists convert their machines, pimping them up with new functions, creating new game worlds, playing around with the 8-byte aesthetic and transforming games culture into art.
The exhibition at the House of Electronic Arts Basel simulates a ‘video game arcade’ with seven artistic arcade-machines from all over the world (“Painstation”, “PentaPong”, “The Machine”, “Radical ATM”, “Tesla Arcade”, “Cage was a n00b” & “Racer”), combined with other works of JODI, Evan Roth, and Hussein Chalayan. Visitors can, of course, not only admire the best of artists’ video arcade creations but also play them.
Curated by Alain Bieber
Participants:
Djeff
MOBILESKINO
Haas, Wellershoff, Winter
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Andreas Ullrich / C. Rockefeller Art Investment Group
Ivan Kozenitzky, Frederico Lazcano
Canedo, Maingardt, Hartmann
Jodi
Evan Roth
Hussein Chalayan
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