Not that that is entirely true; half-life, civilization, Lemming, Quake, DOOM, X-COM: UFO DEFENSE, Jet Set Willy (almost forgot that one), Pirates, Star Wars: TIE Fighters are all games I have played and enjoyed. But the games that gave me the most to think about was – and they did forget one or two of them – TIM, Quest for Glory (mostly II and III), Codename: ICEMAN, Eye of the Beholder (I erased one friend of mines saving as he was close to finish the first one…), Dune, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the search for Atlantis, Football Manager ’95 (the best manager game ever), Alone in the dark, SOFT PORN!! (not that it was so much porn,but it was text based, one had to type what one wanted to do, and I did not enjoy Leisure Suite Larry, the graphic [video] game that Al Lowe made based on Soft Porn), not to mention Black Cauldron.
Digression:
I am thinking that a lot of the game I played in the early nineties was based on typing, and living in Norway I had to do this in englsh. Not that my English is great, I have spelling errors, grammatical problems. I have the same problems in my Norwegian language, and to be frank, also my german suffers from the same mistakes. But still: how would this be if I did not play all these games?
End of digression
These was all a part of my early teens, in a time I did want to work and thus earn some money and did dedicate more time to play than to read – didn’t program much tough…
The list I read was posted at
filibustercartoons a time ago.
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( 3 / 1609 )being in berlin last weekend, seeing some shows that was interesting, like Annika Ström at Atle Gerhardsen and Sean Snyder at Galerie Neu -- I went to the "opening" of Knut Henrik Henriksens part of the evolving group exhibition in berlin mitte called Longing Balloons Are Floating Around the World. It is a baulücke in mitte where the two curators Caroline Eggel & Christiane Rekade have installed a small space for 12 months. On of the eleven artists will open his/hers part of the exhibition once a month. Or have I missunderstood it? I think they are breaking up the exhibition into smaller parts so that some artists will have solo shows there.
The two curators did an offspace show in 2004 called Was ist in meiner Wohnung wenn ich nicht da bin?, I think that is the only show from belin not being in a gallery or an institution that got a critic's pick at artforum.com (you have to registrer to read it).
At the opening was also Reto Pulfer. He used to hang out a lot in berlin some odd two years ago before moving to paris and then new york. And now he's back. Some of his work are to be seen at the artnews.info site and one can download one of his noisy tracks called Glue at Internet Archive.
He turned out to be a fan of Nurse With Wound and we talked about the project they did for artistic interruptions last year in Lofoten.
It was a sort of strange thing, because the local/regional radio, that usually is sort of mainstream was for a time being overtaken by strange sounds and samplings like the ones one can listen to at brainwas radio. A nice project I had to admit in the midle of a mediocre biennale (www.liaf.no), and the rest of the large format or documentary projects that was realised at that time in nordland...
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( 3 / 1678 )it is such a relief to read MAN, and I am very glad every time he touches upon the very delicate subject of Artforum.com and their sloppy editorial work.
here is another take on the subject.
I think the reason is that the art world does not have the same look upon conflic of interest that the rest of the publishing world has. We had an incident here in norway as well.
Two magazines, one subject, same writer, almost identical texts. And this happened twice. This without talking about this to any of the editors. It is not the same, but still interesting and on the same line.
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( 3 / 1571 )Cory Arcangel compressed Iron Maides Number of the Beast 666 times as a mp3
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( 3 / 1770 )Karl Nyberg - the second half of Sarts - A Critical Point of View pointed out in his more or less last post in their blog project is that the project was ment to be a low-tech, or rather low prestige (as in no prominence and importance). The debates on the blog have becommed more and more serious and this makes me think:
what is a blog for the contemporary art world? - do you really want a blog to be seen? if not, then why put your thoughts online?
but it seems that many uses the publishing tools that the blog's can offer to do certain projects and that is acctually interesting. I would like to do a blog-project.
not so much into contemporary art is tryign to understand net-art, or make net art do bad contemporary art (a interview I did with him, Anton Vidokle of e-flux, pointed out to me that a lot of net art is not very interesting - and what they did - and are doing at e-flux is relating to other subjects but on the net ).
also the german Kunst Blog is using these tools to do something else (more or less a magazine for texts on art).
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