Artists play games

• Authors: Andrzej Pitrus

Abstracts

EN

Andrzej Pitrus discusses complex relationships between the two worlds – art and computer/ games. Numerous artists are looking for inspirations in the world of an interactive entertainment, yet some of them are creating new paths of its development. Some of the artists focus on new and unique interfaces. Others refer to the mechanics of games to create their own interactive works. Bill Viola’s The Night Journey is an excellent example of such project. The author also reviews critical games, which are based on the mechanisms easily found in commercial games. Yet, their goal is to deconstruct them, rather than followig well known tracks. Pitrus examines this strategy in the works of a famous studio “Tale of Tales”.

Keywords

EN

media art; video games; interactivity; interface

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 38
• Pages: 113-122

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Andrzej Pitrus

• Instytut Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

• https://orcid.org/0000000253813377

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2021.38.07

Biblioteka Nauki

1955339