{"id":31209,"date":"2011-04-08T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/or-take-super-mario-clouds-where-cory-modified\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:24:05","slug":"or-take-super-mario-clouds-where-cory-modified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/or-take-super-mario-clouds-where-cory-modified\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31209 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\/or-take-super-mario-clouds-where-cory-modified\/attachment\/31210\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lif59eDGO51qescwho1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&hellip;Or take Super Mario Clouds, where Cory modified an NES cartridge and removed all the graphics except the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>To me, as an art historian, that&rsquo;s a disruptive gesture to the gameness of the game. But it&rsquo;s not trying to use the unique qualities of games to create an experience the same way that Eric [Zimmerman] or Tracy [Fullerton] might. I don&rsquo;t think that should mean that these folks should stop what they are doing. That&rsquo;s the punk rocker in me, that loves the way they&rsquo;re tweaking games; but from the point of view of someone who wants to advance the cause of games, I see them as something different. They&rsquo;re not trying to work with games in a constructive way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From an art historian&rsquo;s perspective, are there any promising antecedents of work that does embrace games?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite examples was this project called Open Score. This was part of the 9 Evenings projects in the &lsquo;60s. Robert Rauschenberg was a well-known painter and Billy Kl\u00fcver was an employee of Bell Labs. They had two people\u2014a tennis player and then the painter Frank Stella\u2014play a game at night. The racket had sensors and would play a musical note and slightly dim the light. As they played, they were essentially writing a piece of music but also slowly impacting their ability to play the game. Eventually, they couldn&rsquo;t see what they were doing anymore. Games can be embraced with a value of place\u2014it&rsquo;s about artists exploring the potential of a game. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/killscreenmagazine.com\/articles\/game-designers-want-be-artists-without-knowing-what-means\">Kill Screen &#8211; &ldquo;Game designers want to be artists without knowing what that means.&rdquo;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;Or take Super Mario Clouds, where Cory modified an NES cartridge and removed all the graphics except the clouds. To me, as an art historian, that&rsquo;s a disruptive gesture to the gameness of the game. But it&rsquo;s not trying to use the unique qualities of games to create an experience the same way that Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-87n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31209","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=31209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31211,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31209\/revisions\/31211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}