{"id":38853,"date":"2011-01-09T04:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T04:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-spending-years-developing\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:53:37","slug":"after-spending-years-developing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/after-spending-years-developing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38853 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\/after-spending-years-developing\/attachment\/38854\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_leqociJRC11qene28o1_540-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&ldquo;After spending years developing computer-game-based artworks, Feng turned back to more traditional forms. \u201cI thought about the relationship between the artist and the audience,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the role of the artist is very exaggerated in the contemporary art scene. Artists are sometimes almost worshipped like gods, and I think this is a total exaggeration. I don\u2019t know where this egoist idea comes from, and I don\u2019t think it can exist in any other industry. For example, \u201c he continued, \u201cI always think that video games are art pieces themselves, but because video games circulate in a commercial context, or are not designed by one individual, they are never recognized as art.\u201d&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Asked if he was interested in the latest motion-sensor controlled video games, Feng described himself as not \u201ca chaser of new technology\u201d but \u201ca revivalist of technology.\u201d He talked about building Long March: Restart on software that deliberately emulates earlier video games, as he chooses to return to not only his Chinese heritage, but his own experience of playing video games.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jingdaily.com\/en\/culture\/artist-feng-mengbo-i-always-think-that-video-games-are-pieces-of-art-themselves\/\">Artist Feng Mengbo: \u201cI Always Think That Video Games Are Pieces Of Art Themselves\u201d \u00ab Jing Daily : The Business of Luxury and Culture in China<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;After spending years developing computer-game-based artworks, Feng turned back to more traditional forms. \u201cI thought about the relationship between the artist and the audience,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the role of the artist is very exaggerated in the contemporary art scene. Artists are sometimes almost worshipped like gods, and I think this is a total [&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":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-gallery","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-gallery"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-a6F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853","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=38853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38855,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}