Reset/play September 5, 2008

RESET/PLAY
Guest curated by Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum

September 6 – November 2, 2008

Austin, TX, (August, 2008)—Arthouse is pleased to announce RESET/PLAY , an exhibition organized by Arthouse at the Jones Center and guest curated by Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum, presented at the Jones Center (700 Congress Avenue) Saturday, September 6 through Sunday, November 2, 2008.

The video game as a medium and a style of life has reached its middle age along with the first generation of people who grew up playing them. The non-linear, interactive, processor based narratives, which at first mimicked Hollywood and struggled to convey their simple content with 8-bit processors, gradually became the largest entertainment industry in the history of electronic media. RESET/PLAY is an exhibition attempting a critical exploration of contemporary art inspired by video games. Questioning the history, control mechanisms, political and art-historical implications of electronic games, RESET/PLAY assembles a formidable group of international artists who made a significant impact on this growing post-game artistic sub-genre.

Artists include Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern and Keita Takahashi.

RESET/PLAY is organized for Arthouse by guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum, both of whom are practicing media artists who also run independent spaces in Brooklyn and Dallas, respectively, which focus on media art. The exhibition will be accompanied by an 8-bit music and film festival co-organized by the Austin Museum of Digital Art.

Admission is free and open to the public.

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