Image: Mark Essen, Randy Balma: Municipal Abortionist, 2008
Next Level: New Independent Gaming
Friday, October 10th, 7:30pm
the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/$8 General Public
Bringing together prominent game designers, artists and critics, Next Level takes a look at the recent rise of indie gaming: a vibrant new culture of individually made and self-distributed video games that blur the line between digital art and creative entertainment.
Featuring artist and game designers Mark Essen, Jason Rohrer and Greg Costikyan. Moderated by Rhizome staff writer Ed Halter, an author, critic, and curator whose book From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games was published in 2006.
Part of Rhizome's New Silent Series at the New Museum.
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Image: Lee Walton, Watching TV, from the "Remote Instructions" series, 2008
Rhizome Commissions '08
Saturday, October 11th, 3:00pm
the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/$8 General Public
The last in a three-part series that features presentations by artists awarded grants through Rhizome's Commissions Program. Founded in 2001 to support artists working with technology, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded fifty-four commissions to date. Projects realized through the Program represent some of the most forward-thinking and innovative works of media and Internet-based art.
In this evening's program, the artists will discuss their commissioned projects and larger bodies of work. This event features Will Pappenheimer, John Craig Freeman, Annie Abrahams, Nadia Anderson and Fritz Donnelly, Lee Walton, Marek Walczak, and Martin Wattenberg.
Part of Rhizome's New Silent Series at the New Museum.
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please consider inviting rafael fajardo and sweat. they have been at this for a long time.
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thanks,
william l moore
http://www.williamlmoore.com