{"id":14027,"date":"2024-04-08T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/a-skate-through-cyberspace-on-the-edge-with-the-now-play-this-festival-of-experimental-video-games\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T13:37:14","slug":"a-skate-through-cyberspace-on-the-edge-with-the-now-play-this-festival-of-experimental-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/a-skate-through-cyberspace-on-the-edge-with-the-now-play-this-festival-of-experimental-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"A skate through cyberspace: on the edge with the Now Play This festival of experimental video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminality<\/p>\n

For a week or so every year, Somerset House in London becomes home to a mini-festival of experimental video games: last year\u2019s were all on the theme of love<\/a>. Now Play This has been running for 10 years, and this year\u2019s theme \u2013 liminality \u2013 is especially well-suited to the medium. Video games are in-between spaces: they are fictional worlds in which real-world relationships are made; they are an art form that exists across and between technology and culture. You could make a case for the inclusion of plenty of games in this selection, and the ones that are here explore the theme from some unexpected angles. There are games here about transition, expansion, life and death, borders, and skateboarding through cyberspace.<\/p>\n

The variety of interactive experiences here is, as ever, huge, showing the full range of what games and digital art can be. There are relatively conventional pieces of interactive entertainment here \u2013 such as Ed Key and David Kanaga\u2019s Proteus, in which you walk through a procedurally generated dreamscape \u2013 and Sad Owl Studios\u2019s Viewfinder, a superb game<\/a> about perception and photography. And then there\u2019s Labyrinth, a lattice of interconnected ropes that light up bright LED cubes when they touch, and a playable suitcase (Pamela Cuadros\u2019s Moving Memories). In one room a film about journeying to the broken, glitchy edgelands of the game Cyberpunk 2077 plays opposite a game (Crashboard) where you wear 3D glasses, stand on a skateboard and tilt your way through an obstacle course of pixellated imagery from the early days of the internet.<\/p>\n

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\nThis week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminality
\nFor a week or so every year, Somerset House in London becomes home to a mini-festival of experimental video games: last year\u2019s were all on the theme of love. Now Play This has been running for 10 years, and this year\u2019s theme \u2013 liminality \u2013 is especially well-suited to the medium. Video games are in-between spaces: they are fictional worlds in which real-world relationships are made; they are an art form that exists across and between technology and culture. You could make a case for the inclusion of plenty of games in this selection, and the ones that are here explore the theme from some unexpected angles. There are games here about transition, expansion, life and death, borders, and skateboarding through cyberspace.
\nThe variety of interactive experiences here is, as ever, huge, showing the full range of what games and digital art can be. There are relatively conventional pieces of interactive entertainment here \u2013 such as Ed Key and David Kanaga\u2019s Proteus, in which you walk through a procedurally generated dreamscape \u2013 and Sad Owl Studios\u2019s Viewfinder, a superb game about perception and photography. And then there\u2019s Labyrinth, a lattice of interconnected ropes that light up bright LED cubes when they touch, and a playable suitcase (Pamela Cuadros\u2019s Moving Memories). In one room a film about journeying to the broken, glitchy edgelands of the game Cyberpunk 2077 plays opposite a game (Crashboard) where you wear 3D glasses, stand on a skateboard and tilt your way through an obstacle course of pixellated imagery from the early days of the internet. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminality For a week or so every year, Somerset House in London becomes home to a mini-festival of experimental video games: last year\u2019s were all on the theme of love. Now Play This has been running for 10 years, and …<\/p>\n

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