Game/Play In The UK!
Over at Grand Text Auto, they've successfully spotted the newly launched Game/Play UK exhibition, described as "a networked national touring exhibition focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play", but actually far more interesting than that academikwak explanation implies!
GTA notes: "With a dozen or so pieces in total, the show has four installations alongside Mary [Flanagan's giant joystick exhibit, pictured] including “Fluffy Tamagotchi (teddy bear material, Chicco toy TV set, 25 year old BBC microcomputer and some sensors), which can sing, wave its arms around and shit blue turds.”" Uhh... nice!
Also: "There are seven screen-based works — three online and four in the gallery, including... The Endless Forest from Tale of Tales, a funky second-person shooter by Julian Oliver, and your and my favorite digital marital arts game." Wait, is that marital arts or martial arts? Inquiring minds want to know...








