Game Art: Richard Harrod & Nick Muellner's "The Evolution of Closed Systems and Other Propagandas" (2000)

"Video Game based on Pong Model: 3 sections including custom audio, video and programming where pong is the metaphor for all human and state interaction. A conversation in pong." (Richard Harrod)

"A more profound, multilayered perception is investigated in The Evolution of Closed Systems and Other Propagandas, a video game conceived in collaboration with Nicholas Muellner and programmed by Harrod. For one or two players, this grown-up version of the computer game Pong incorporates text that includes quotations from Mao Tsetung and The Book of Excellence: 236 Ha hits of Successful Salespeople as well as comments by Harrod and Muellner on personal relationships. The game is enhanced by Harrod's poignant score and a mesmerizing screen of choreographed rectangles playing modernist visual games of their own. With so much in play, winning becomes a richer objective." (Eileen Neff, ArtForum, March 2000)

Link: Richard Harrod

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti