PAUSE: Spanish artist’s more than 2,000 tennis balls make moves in gallery.
As part of an installation, Ana Soler‘s more than 2,000 tennis balls dot the Mustang Art Gallery. [Via Pulmonaire]
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
As part of an installation, Ana Soler‘s more than 2,000 tennis balls dot the Mustang Art Gallery. [Via Pulmonaire]
We often throw around new genre terms in games and much like micro-genres in music, their definitiions aren’t always clear. So there’s the new thing called social games. You may have heard of it. It comprises at least 12% of Facebook’s revenues. But what are they? Raul Aliaga Diaz gives a brief prim
We want this. Performance artist Chris Burden has an installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that’s right out of FAO Schwartz. This is the same guy who had his assistant shoot himself in the arm during a performance piece, so you know he’s serious. It looks amazing. Via Hyperallergic: M
We had our own sports week last month, because we think they often get the shaft in the realm of thinking about games. Now, a curator named David Little at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is taking the same tack for the art world. Titled “the Sports Show,” it will feature work such as Richard Avedo
Good artist steal, bad artists borrow, right? Then there are pirates. Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick pubbed a lengthy response to the Weekly Standard’s assessment of piracy. In summation, the Standard is in righteous indingation about the public’s blase treatment of piracy but Masnick points out th