Space Invaders
November 11 2011 - January 29 2012
Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
David Kraftsow, First-Person Tetris, Interactive Game, 2011
"Space Invaders is an interactive group exhibition, bringing together works of art and innovative computer games and exploring the blurred line between virtual and real space.
The exhibition offers rich opportunities for guests to test both games and works. It presents works of art that employ computer game techniques, effects and aesthetics in new ways, as well as commercial and experimental computer games, breaking down barriers and creating new developments of space and interactions. Michael Johansson's Tetris-works invade doors and tower windows of the Nikolaj Art Center; blood is dripping on the floor in front in Riley Harmon's "What It Is Without the Hand That Wields It" when somebody dies in Counter-Strike; and a dark, sensory world opens itself to the spectator in video art pioneer Bill Viola's new game. Try current games as well as classics such as Space Invaders and Tetris with a twist.
Over the past decades, computer games have gained a growing recognition on the cultural stage; and computer games elements have increasingly found their way into visual art, film, websites, cell phone applications and events in urban space. Taking as its starting point this heightened cultural significance, Space Invaders focusses on one of the highly current trends within computer games: the hybrids of digital and physical spaces.
To tie in with the exhibition, a series of related events has been planned.
Among the participating artists are:
Jeremy Bailey, Pippin Barr, Die Gute Fabrik, Aram Bartholl, Mark Essen, Harun Farocki, Cao Fei, Søren Thilo Funder, Riley Harmon, Timothy Hutchings, Michael Johansson, Walter Langelaar, Ludic Society, Julian Oliver, Guillaume Reymond, Jacob Tækker, Marieke Verbiesen, Bill Viola and USC Game Innovation Lab.Among the computer games you can play on the exhibition are:
- First Person Tetris (David Kraftsow)
- Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar Games)
- Counter-Strike (Valve Software)
- Colossal Cave Adventure (Will Crowther & Don Woods)
- Little Big Planet (Media Molecule & PS3)
- Uncharted 3 (Naughty Dog & PS3)
- Broken Dimensions (Troels Hugo Cederholm/DADIU)"
Link: Space Invaders
Game Art Events: Ongoing & Upcoming
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
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