GAME ART
Game Art: Scott van Haastrecht's "Pictoplasma: Character Arrival" (2013)
Scott van Haastrecht describes this piece as "a split-flap display installation of emphatic visual communication". He elaborates: "The Space Invaders – in all their minimalist glory and retro nostalgia – have been born out of a technological limitation. Driven by the necessity to engage the player emotionally by anthropomorphizing