NEWS: CARDBOARD COMPUTER AND TALE OF TALES CONQUER LONDON

Cardboard Computer and Tale of Tales’s artworks are currently on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Kentucky Route Zero and The Graveyard took center stage at one of the most remarkable exhibitions about video games ever staged. Curated by Marie Foulston, Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt celebrates the art, culture, and aesthetics of video games. Professors Jake Elliott (GAME WRITING), Tamas Kemenczy (GAME ART), and Ben Babbitt’s (GAME SOUND) Kentucky Route Zero occupies the second room, DESIGN, next to Auriea Harvey (GAME LAB) and Michael Samyn’s (GAME CRITIQUE) The Graveyard, alongside their REALTIME ART MANIFESTO.

This section showcases rarely seen design materials from the desks and hard drives of leading designers sit alongside specially commissioned multimedia installations that provide new perspectives and insights into the craftsmanship and inspiration behind a selection of groundbreaking contemporary videogames.

Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt will remain open until February 24 2019.

Cardboard Computer at Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, 2019.

Tale of Tales at Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, 2019.

Below are additional installation shots from the show, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:

Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Read more about Videogames. Design/Play/Disrupt.

EVENT: PARALLEL WORLDS (NOVEMBER 25 2016, LONDON)

GAME/PLAY professors Meg Jayant (GAME WRITING) and Auriea Harvey and Michall Samyn of Tales of Tales (GAME LAB & GAME CRITIQUE) will take part in a compelling event at the Victoria 7 Albert Museum on November 25, 2016.

Parallel Worlds: Designing Alternative Realities in Videogames

Friday, 25 November 2016

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Tickets: 35 punds (full price), 30 pounds (concession), 15 pounds (student)

Book Online: https://goo.gl/AR8ouS

Parallel Worlds will be taking place on Friday 25 November 2016 and will bring together a highly eclectic line up of leading designers, artists and thinkers whose work explores the ways in which videogames reflect and augment our reality. Speakers confirmed so far include Meg Jayanth (80 Days), Auriea Harvey and Michall Samyn of Tale of Tales (Cathedral in the Clouds), Laura Dilloway (Rigs: Mechanized Combat League), Keiichi Matsuda (Hyper-Reality), Simon Mann (Total War: Attila), Holly Gramazio (Matheson Marcault) and Pol Clarissou (Orchids to Dusk) with more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Full Speaker line up info is available here

This inaugural event will continue into the evening with a Parallel Worlds themed Friday Late where your reality will be further distorted with a host of arcades, workshops and demonstrations across the Museum.

The event is curated by Kristian Volsing, Research Curator, Videogames, Victoria and Albert Museum.

LINK: Parallel Worlds