Event: "Heart Games. Computer Games Art" (February 2 - April 21, 2013, Museum of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
It gets even more interesting:
The Heart Games art exhibition celebrates video game culture, focusing on collected art from primarily Swedish and Scnadinavian artists, but also works from selected international artists. The exhibition opens Saturday 2/2 in 2013 at the Technical Museum in game art that attract and challenge both players a traditional art audience. Heart Games will be open to the public from February 2 - April 21, 2013. Again, when it comes to Game Art, Scandinavia is the place to be.
"Computer games have long been in culture but sullied the reputation as the gaming media has become an established form of entertainment, we have also been able to see a change in the game's cultural value. Not least thanks to a younger generation of creators and artists inspired by the form of culture they grew up with - video games. The exhibition geatures paintings, illustrations, interactive art games, crafts and installs all of which have a connection to computer games world. Heart game was shown at the Museum of Östergötland in autumn 2012. It goes on tour during 2013 - 2014 and first up is the Technical Museum." (Museum of Technology)
Artists line-up:
Saga-Mariah Sandberg (SE)
Marcus Gunnar Pettersson (SE)
Love Hultén (SE)
Maja Rohwetter (DE)
Per Fhager (SE)
Junkboy (SE)
Max Olofsson (SE)
Lars Arrhenius (SE)
Mikael Vesavuori (SE)
Laura Vidal (ES)
Jenni Källberg (SE)
Johan Löfgren (SE)
Johan Thurfjell (SE)
Marcus Hermansson (SE)
Minna Sakaria (SE)
Mads Peitersen (DK)
Pierre “Slusk” Bäckman (SE)
Duncan Harris (UK)
Klaas van Hees (NL)
Tale of Tales (BE)
DICE (SE)
Miguel Mansur (US)
Jonatan Söderström,
Dennis Wedin &
Benjamin Söderström (SE)
LINK:Submitted by Matteo Bittanti - thanks to Mathias Jansson for the heads-up