I won’t be there, thanks to too much work to do, but maybe YOU can go and tell me what a blast you had.
Sunday, November 13th
Innovative Leisure: New Atari Games, curated by Ian Bogost.
Celebrating a new art games arcade at Death By Audio
6:30 – 9pm ||| @ DEATH BY AUDIO (South 2nd & Kent Avenue)
FREE ||| ALL AGES ||| TALKS BY IAN BOGOST, SONNY RAE TEMPEST
More info after the jump!This opening party is specifically from 6:30PM – 9PM! Come early and on time! DINNER MAY BE SERVED. Talks by Ian Bogost and Sonny Rae Tempest.
FOR MORE INFO AND TO RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268697073167185
About the Game Curator:
Dr. Ian Bogost is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (where he is also Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media) and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. His research and writing considers videogames as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on political games and artgames. Bogost is author or co-author of many books, including Unit Operations, Persuasive Games, Racing the Beam, Newsgames, How To Do Things with Videogames and the forthcoming Alien Phenomenology. Bogost’s videogames cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, and tort reform. His games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. His most recent game, A Slow Year, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival
Game Details:
CALM, MUTE, MOVING by SONNY RAE TEMPEST
http://www.sonnyrae.com/2011/07/interactive-interview-about-calm-mute.html
Atari Game Poem, played using a breath-controlled cigarette controller.
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HALO 2600 by ED FRIES
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Halo-2600/137474846287097
Halo 2600 is a new game for the (very old) Atari 2600 game console written by Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft.
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KITE by SIMON QUERNHOST
http://www.quernhorst.de/atari/ki.html
The game is dedicated to and supported by the german kite company ELLIOT. The game was released for Atari 2600 in 2009, as a limited edition of 35 copies.
"DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!" 