Games and Art lecture 2

1. Games and Art
Game structures and play
as an organising principle

2. Jane McGonical - Reality is broken
McGonigal: I investigated the reasons why games seem to have an increasing pull
on us. We're up to 3 billion hours playing online games a week. I realized that
compared to games, reality feels broken: it doesn't engage us or motivate us or
inspire us or connect us as effectively and reliably as our best games do

3. Affordance - Affordance is what the environment offers the individual. James J. Gibson coined the term in his 1966
book, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems,
Mechanics Sicart.
Brown and
Garrett:
Cloud. A
Large cloud
structure
made of
multiple light
bulbs that
participants
can switch
on and off.

4. Harrington
The Bridge

5. Erin Wurm

6. sean mathews recycled play
Interface - extend the player into the game world

7. IAN BORDEN - SKATEBOARDING
- Adapting the skateborad
- Ollie

8. The Ludic City Quentin Stevens
Amish Kapoor - cloud gate

9. Urban golf
Locative gaming
- situationist
Drift

10. Samarah
Smith chain
reaction

11. New Games Movement - Collaborative massive non competitive games DeKoven
Knowles - lets make a slad

12. BUG
Contemporary activist play and performative urban games have to deal with
a specific precondition: the electronic, electromagnetic and logic topography of
the modern city, which is marked through ‘tags’. Tagging can be understood in
two ways, first as an expression of an urban sub-culture of graffiti arts and sec-
ondly as a technological term to indicate a virtual-reality marker in physical
space.
HYBRID PLAY ART

13. What is the Avant garde LUDIC AGE Frontierism
Is art still the avant garde, or is it now games - and if so, are games the new
actual art form, the experiential medium that powers the rest of the cultural forms.
Is it ideas - but is it now technology, and games have married themselves too
technology, but what about art - what is art’s relationship to technology.
The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longe rexists in painting and music, it’s the media themselves.
(McLuhan
TECHNOCULTURE
The avant-garde (/ˌævɒ̃ˈɡɑːrd/; French: [avɑ̃ɡaʁd]; from French, 'advance guard' or 'vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') are
people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society. It is frequently
characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability.
Manifestos - Ludic Manifesto- Zimmerman

14. Shadowing - Bristol playing the city
Lamposts record
and play back
shadows
The game art in
public space, can
transform or it can
support the public
activity
PLACE-MAKING

15. Yellow arrow
Participants posted Yellow Arrow
stickers in order to point out or comment
on specific locations and objects. Each
sticker featured a unique alphanumeric
code, and by texting the Yellow Arrow
phone number using this code, users
were able to attach a short message to
the location where they had posted the
sticker. Subsequent passers-by could
text the Yellow Arrow number with this
same code and receive the saved
message in response. They could also
reply via text message to the original
author.

17. Dear Esther - walking games

18. Noguchi - sculpture- playgrounds play children/adults alibis
That artists can work with the
design of public space rather
than creating monuments. Is
this social practice?

19. Livingston skate park

20. Groupe Ludic

21. games for performance art
PAC
Manhattan
Explicit and implicit rules

22. Avatars Interface
Virtuosity

23. Cao Fei (born 1978)’s career in art. The artist is known for observing the evolution of
contemporary China and the impact of urbanization.

24. Johan Sebastian Joust
The magic crayon -
Gingold -
Virtuosity
Soft
and hard mastery -

25. LARPS - live action role play
Nordic

26. Joycestick - a virtual reality gamified version of
Ulysses

27. Calleja
Different levels of immersion - Incorporation.

28. Flanagan Giant joystick games process or object

29. Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich
Workers Maypole Folk Games - Opies. Are they game Ring a ring a roses
Jesper Julles

30. Ambiguity of play - rhetoric - SERIOUS PLAY
When is something real nor real, when is it play not play . critical play
Play is a force or energy, that is tamed and made socially acceptable by games,
so can be a force for use in critical artworks..
7 A subversion is an action, plan, or activity intended to undermine an institution,
event, or object.
Transgresive Play - brink play - art Interventions” are specific types of subversions
that rely upon direct action and engage with political or social issue - Dispruption -
commercial

31. Serious Games - Games designed for purposes outside of entertainment and to encourage participants
to engage with a subject.
Critical Play - Procedural rhetoric - gamification
The use of gmes for non game
purposes.
Critical playing, by playing, you
question through your role in the
game, the world outside the game
Enpathy - persusasion - a point of
view
Player agency
Proceduality -
Games in education
Games for non game purposes
Subversion is defined as 'an action, plan, or activity
intended to undermine an institution

32. Game Art Nicolas Bourriaud’s conception of postproduction art. Bourriaud
presents an aesthetics for artworks made from cultural objects existing for one set of
purposes that are assigned new meaning and use value by artists as part of their
own practice. Mario Clouds by Corey Archangel - made for gallery install - a mod -

33. Independent games artists
Artgames - to create a
connection between this new
approach to game making and art
rock and art film. Like musicians
and filmmakers working with artistic
(rather than commercial and/or
populist) intentions, those making
artgames strove to expand the
expressive possibilities of games.
Diff mechanics
Bjork - pattern
recognition - is the
engine of a game
I love Hue
Monument valley

34. Rod Humble’s The Marriage.
The game abstractly models
the relationship between a
man and a woman as a pink
and a blue square moving
around on a flat background
among a series of different-
colored circles.

35. Jason Rohrer
Passage’s creator, Jason Rohrer, is the subject of a new exhibition at Wellesley
College’s Davis museum, “The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer,” which is being
touted as the first solo art museum retrospective for a video-game designer.
(Passage is already a permanent part of MoMA’s collection.)

37. Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga’s
Vagamundo: A Migrant’s Tale A platform
games.
Art games that question the media, and question society Critical gaming.
Vagamundo: A Migrant's Tale is a mobile public art project designed for on
the street interaction to create temporary public commons as well as an
online game. Through a mobile cart resembling an ice cream cart
pedestrians are invited to play a video game that reflects the plight of illegal
immigrants in New York. The project is informed by interviews that I
conducted with new immigrants from Latin America residing in Manhattan
and Brooklyn. The game is composed of three levels each level represents a
move up in the social scale and assimilation to the United States. making
playful gamified works that are critical of society, are progressive
and revolutionary. Artists use games to critique society.

38. Eddo Stern Tekken Torture - break the circle, real game consequencess.

39. Moding/Hacks - - appropriation art
Game modifications as artistic practice. Found art - readymades -
Level editing - mapping - Sod Jodi 2000 - a modification of castle wolfenstien
Velvets strike ANNE-MARIE SCHLEINER mod of
Counter strike spray paints you can use in game

40. Machima - movies produced in a game engine