{"id":30854,"date":"2011-08-22T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kill-screen-curated-a-sold-out-arcade-two-weeks\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:20:05","slug":"kill-screen-curated-a-sold-out-arcade-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kill-screen-curated-a-sold-out-arcade-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30854 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kill-screen-curated-a-sold-out-arcade-two-weeks\/attachment\/30855\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lqc54lkiHb1qescwho1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Kill Screen curated a sold out Arcade two weeks ago at MoMA&rsquo;s July PopRally. The museum was packed with art and game enthusiast actively trying their skills with an array of eleven games spread across the first three floors and the garden. I&rsquo;m a closeted game addict so the event culled no shortage of interest from me. I started out the night playing Starry Heavens, a large turn-based installation of networked dots predicated on a feudalist hierarchy, with a group of friends and the game&rsquo;s creators, Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie Pozzi. The giant heilium-filled weather balloons floating above the game&rsquo;s stage added a Calvino-esque ambience and a minaturizing sense of scale. B.U.T.T.O.N., a game built specifically on unfair tactics located inside the Museum&rsquo;s lobby, quickly shifted the slow pace of Starry Heavens into a frenzy of subversive button smashing, shouting, and friend pushing. Overall the games offered a broad set of aesthetics and interactivity ranging from the cooperative, full-body, and homebrewed Kinect-meets-iPad PXL PUSHR (created by Matt Boch and Ryan Challinor) to the binary palette and hauntingly captivating experience of LIMBO &#8211; with a special note to QWOP, which garnered a long line and much moral support for participants. I caught up with Kill Screen&rsquo;s co-founder Jamin Brophy-Warren over email to find out more about his logic in curating the event: (via <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2011\/aug\/8\/kill-screen-arcade-moma\/\">Rhizome | KILL SCREEN&rsquo;s &ldquo;Arcade&rdquo; at MoMA<\/a>) \u00a0Click through for the interview&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kill Screen curated a sold out Arcade two weeks ago at MoMA&rsquo;s July PopRally. The museum was packed with art and game enthusiast actively trying their skills with an array of eleven games spread across the first three floors and the garden. 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