{"id":27720,"date":"2014-01-31T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/8bitfuture-the-video-game-art-museum-is-now\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:16:48","slug":"8bitfuture-the-video-game-art-museum-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/8bitfuture-the-video-game-art-museum-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27720 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/8bitfuture-the-video-game-art-museum-is-now\/attachment\/27721\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n0a62ysfR21qft3eko1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n0a62ysfR21qft3eko1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n0a62ysfR21qft3eko1_1280-493x500.jpg 493w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n0a62ysfR21qft3eko1_1280-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n0a62ysfR21qft3eko1_1280.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/8bitfuture.com\/post\/75172292453\/the-video-game-art-museum-is-now-open-an\">8bitfuture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Video Game Art Museum is now \u2018open\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An online gallery being put together by \u2018artist in residence\u2019 Jon Gourley features artworks seen on the walls of video game environments. New works are going up each day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manifesto-ish.com\/#!air\/galleryPage\">the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0Video Game Art Museum (VGAM)\u00a0and archive\u00a0is constructed with art objects appropriated from the backgrounds of video games. In their original context, these \u201cworks\u201d function as proxies, or simulations, of art. By recontextualizing these simulations into a virtual gallery,\u00a0VGAM\u00a0will playfully refocus attention onto the works themselves, explore the intersection of art and simulation, and satirize recent institutional forays into the subject of video games and art (see the Smithsonian\u2019s\u00a0The Art of Video Games\u00a0and Google Art Project).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/ZVWQzx160dYTb\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/ec5b7b99d95e9df8bd791f7056c94e99\/tumblr_n04fssaXIo1tozsdko1_1280.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8bitfuture: The Video Game Art Museum is now \u2018open\u2019. An online gallery being put together by \u2018artist in residence\u2019 Jon Gourley features artworks seen on the walls of video game environments. New works are going up each day at the gallery. The\u00a0Video Game Art Museum (VGAM)\u00a0and archive\u00a0is constructed with art objects appropriated from the backgrounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7d6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27722,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27720\/revisions\/27722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}