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The creation of the Digital Game Canon recognizes the importance of digital game culture. The Canon provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S. National Film Registry has played for film culture and history. (Our scope is international.) Our argument: We could do worse…
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PROFILE of John Baldessari. Andy Warhol’s shadow hangs heavy over the international art world, but not in L.A., where the most relevant artist of the moment, the seventy-nine-year-old John Baldessari, said recently that he “hadn’t thought about Warhol in forty years.” Baldessari’s endlessly surprising retrospective, which was on view all summer at the Los Angeles…
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In a small apartment Crystal, Minnesota, a history teacher spent his nights dreaming up ways to bring his subjects to life. It wasn’t until his two math teacher roommates helped turn his ideas into code that Oregon Trail was born. City Pages has an in-depth look at Oregon Trail creator Don Rawitsch, and the game’s…