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Event: Garden of Forking Paths (Loop Space, Newcastle 2 – 24 October 2009)

Matteo

Matteo

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New d/Lux/MediaArts Sydney, Australia, has produced a new touring exhibition called “Garden of Forking Paths”. A title adopted from Jorge Luis Borges short story from 1941.
Garden For Electrofringe 2009 d/Lux/MediaArts presents the premiere of a new touring exhibition, Garden of Forking Paths, a unique show which draws together notable historic and contemporary examples of games that push the bounds of the genre and break the orthodox set of rules. This exhibition will challenge younger audiences’ conventional understanding of what a computer game is, providing a hands on exploration of “just how different everything was back in the 80’s and 90‘s - text based games, low res graphics and bleepy sound effects” from the press release. Additional information is available here (link to PDF).
Artists: Laurie Anderson (USA) with Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Tale of Tales (Belgium), Jaron Lanier (USA), Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (UK), Anita Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), Andy Deck (USA)

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Curator for the exhibition is Neil Jenkins from Furtherfield [Mathias Jansson].



Link:

Garden of the Forking Paths Official Website

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