{"id":22561,"date":"2026-04-01T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/pixels-and-paintings-video-games-return-to-the-va\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:37:25","slug":"pixels-and-paintings-video-games-return-to-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/pixels-and-paintings-video-games-return-to-the-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixels and paintings: video games return to the V&A"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum\u2019s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming\u2019s cultural clout<\/p>\n

In the grand entrance of the Victoria & Albert Museum, beneath a looming dome with ancient statues visible through nearby arches, a programmer\/DJ is busy live-coding a glitchy electronic music set. Either side of her, large LED displays show streams of code and strobing pixellated images as the bass pounds. She\u2019s part of a group named London Live Coding, an experimental collective that makes music by writing and manipulating audio programs. It is loud, disorientating and brilliant, and I can\u2019t help wondering what Queen Victoria and her husband would have made of it.<\/p>\n

The set is part of the museum\u2019s long-running Friday Late<\/a> evening series, a collaboration with the London Games Festival<\/a>. It showcased a range of independent video games and immersive interactive experiences, focusing on the link between play and performance. Visitors were given a map and left to wander the halls, corridors and galleries looking for installations. You could play the Bafta-winning comedy game Thank Goodness You\u2019re Here!<\/a> on a giant screen beneath a 13th-century spiral staircase. You could wander down the darkened Prince Consort\u2019s gallery and find groups of giggling pals playing the hilarious erotic physics puzzler Sex With Friends, in which ragdoll-like characters have to be guided into (consensual) sexual encounters \u2013 much to the amusement of spectators.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum\u2019s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming\u2019s cultural clout
\nIn the grand entrance of the Victoria & Albert Museum, beneath a looming dome with ancient statues visible through nearby arches, a programmer\/DJ is busy live-coding a glitchy electronic music set. Either side of her, large LED displays show streams of code and strobing pixellated images as the bass pounds. She\u2019s part of a group named London Live Coding, an experimental collective that makes music by writing and manipulating audio programs. It is loud, disorientating and brilliant, and I can\u2019t help wondering what Queen Victoria and her husband would have made of it.
\nThe set is part of the museum\u2019s long-running Friday Late evening series, a collaboration with the London Games Festival. It showcased a range of independent video games and immersive interactive experiences, focusing on the link between play and performance. Visitors were given a map and left to wander the halls, corridors and galleries looking for installations. You could play the Bafta-winning comedy game Thank Goodness You\u2019re Here! on a giant screen beneath a 13th-century spiral staircase. You could wander down the darkened Prince Consort\u2019s gallery and find groups of giggling pals playing the hilarious erotic physics puzzler Sex With Friends, in which ragdoll-like characters have to be guided into (consensual) sexual encounters \u2013 much to the amusement of spectators. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an interactive session of Sex With Friends to improvised Robot Karaoke, the Friday Live celebration of play and performance amid the museum\u2019s venerable halls was a reminder of gaming\u2019s cultural clout In the grand entrance of the Victoria & Albert Museum, beneath a looming dome with ancient statues visible through nearby arches, a programmer\/DJ …<\/p>\n

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