Event: "Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form" (MoMa, Thursday, May 17, 2012, New York)

Contemporary Art Forum: Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 6:00 p.m.

Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

"The Contemporary Art Forum presents timely and innovative programs (lectures, conversations, and performances) that address pressing issues in contemporary art, and grow out of discussions with MoMA curators. Participants include artists and designers, critics, curators, and scholars, among others.

From Marcel Duchamp’s chess games to Lygia Clark’s puzzles, artists throughout the 20th century have adopted the structures and strategies of games. In recent years, they have begun to explore virtual, online, and video games in their work—as well as game theory, an increasingly critical framework for audience engagement and participation—to create social interactions. This two-day forum brings together artists, educators, curators, and game theorists to discuss the influence of game theory on art practice and the ways in which art making has reformulated audience engagement and learning.

Participants include "thought leaders" and scholars Sebastian Chan, Kevin Slavin, Daphne Dragona, Erica Gangsei, Susan Laxton, Hannah Higgins, and Christopher Robbins with artists Coco Fusco, Scott Snibbe, Peggy Ahwesh, Pippin Barr, Pekko Koskinen, and Pedro Reyes. Participating MoMA curators include Christian Rattemeyer, the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings, Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator for Architecture and Design, and Ana Janevski, Associate Curator for Media and Performance Arts. This program is organized by Pablo Helguera, Director of Adult and Academic Programs, MoMA.

This symposium takes place over two days, May 17 and 18, and separate admission applies to each day. Tickets ($10, $8 members and corporate members, $5 students, seniors and staff of other museums) are available online, at the information desk in the main lobby, and at the film desk after 4:00 p.m. Any remaining tickets may be picked up one hour before the start of the program at the Education and Research Building ticketing desk." (MoMa)

Critical Play—The Game as an Art Form

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