New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
212.219.1222
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Next Level
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Friday Oct 10, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$8
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Once upon a time, computer games were the domain of children and uber-nerds, but the proliferation of technology in the last decade has blurred the line between gamers and tech-art experimenters. Tonight, new-media arts organization Rhizome invites you to discuss this shift from Oregon Trail to today's highly designed virtual playgrounds, spotlighting recent landmarks such as Jason Rohrer's social-gardening concept, Cultivation, and Mark Essen's counterintuitive challenges of physics. Hosted by Ed Halter — author of From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games — the discussion draws a crowd of aesthetes, programmers, and, really, anyone curious about the future of the creative world.
