Games

GAMES & EXHIBITS
THE BUSH SOUL: REBECCA ALLEN The Bush Soul explores the role of human presence in a world of artificial life. A person's "soul", represented as a sphere of energy, enters a virtual world that is alive and responsive. The world's inhabitants are brought to life through programs that define their behaviors and desires. THE INTRUDER: NATALIE BOOKCHIN The Intruder is an experimental adaptation of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, and represents a new hybrid form of narrative that exists on the border of computer and video arcade games, cinema and literature. LOL: THE DESKTOP THEATER ARCHIVES: ADRIENE JENIK AND LISA BRENNEIS Desktop Theater is a multi-year research project embracing weekly experiments, workshops and public presentations. The Archive contains multimedia documentation of an ephemeral pursuit: building a frontier settlement at the border between actor and spectator. RL: JANINE CIRINCIONE AND MICHAEL FERRARO RL is an interactive multimedia installation that explores the schism between what we envision and what we see, as expressed through the contrast between grandiose public displays of power and the humdrum, quotidian normalcy of real life (RL). BIO-TEK KITCHEN: LEON CMIELEWSKI and JOSEPHINE STARRS Bio-Tek Kitchen is a Marathon Infinity game patch. In Bio-Tek, the player cleans up the kitchen laboratory of a home biotech enthusiast using weapons such as dish cloths and egg flippers. EVERQUEST: VERANT INTERACTIVE EverQuest is a multiplayer online role-playing game released in 1999 by Verant Interactive. It is a traditional RPG in that the EverQuest world is one of high fantasy, featuring players who might be wizards or warriors and creatures like orcs and dragons. JCJ JUNKMAN: KEN FEINGOLD The large projected image of JCJ Junkman is that of a dilapidated ventriloquist puppet, a worn-out relic with a glazed eye and peeling skin. This head floats in a black void, surrounded by a whirling storm of ever-changing, appearing and disappearing buttons or icons of many varieties. FARADAY'S GHOST: PERRY HOBERMAN "Faraday's Ghost" is a digital analog of an earlier piece entitled "Faraday's Garden". In "Faraday's Garden", participants walked through a landscape of innumerable household and office appliances, triggering power tools, projectors, radios, phonographs, and various other personal comfort devices. HONORIA IN CIBERSPAZIO Honoria in Ciberspazio is a groundbreaking network collaboration, a cyberopera in the process of being composed by a worldwide group of net denizens that currently numbers over 60 contributors.		THE FREUD-LISSITZKY NAVIGATOR: NORMAN KLEIN AND LEV MANOVICH The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator takes the visitor on a journey through an architectural simulation of Freud's theories. THE SIMS: MAXIS The Sims, realeased in early 2000, is a game that lets players create an entire neighborhood of simulated people (the "Sims") and then control and guide their destinies from day to day. BLACKLASH: MONGREL BlackLash is the game the streets have been waiting for! Choose between four black stereotype fighting characters, then slay your way to freedom through swarms of insectoid cops and nazis. SQUANT: NEGATIVLAND Squant is a newly discovered 4th primary color, never seen in human history before. SOD: DIRK PAESMANS AND JOAN HEEMSKERK (jodi.org) #define ENDSTR1 "Heroes don't quit, but go ahead and press Y if you aren't one." NOODLE: JOSH PORTWAY Noodle is a networked environment for creating and playing interactive music. Noodle is an attempt to create a form that allows a musician to make a piece of music that could be reinterpreted by a player/listener to create something like a live experience. TECHNOSPHERE: JANE PROPHET, GORDON SELLEY and MARK HURRY TechnoSphere is a 3D simulation of an environment populated by virtual creatures that are either carnivores or herbivores. ®TMark: ®TMark Collective ®TMark is a brokerage that benefits from "limited liability" just like any other corporation; using this principle, ®TMark supports the sabotage (informative alteration) of corporate products, from dolls and children's learning tools to electronic action games, by channelling funds from investors to workers for specific projects grouped into "mutual funds." LIFE SPACIES II: CHRISTA SOMMERER and LAURENT MIGNONNEAU Life Spacies II is an interactive artificial life environment where users can create artificial creatures by typing text messages. SUMMONS TO SURRENDEER: EDDO STERN Summons to Surrender consists of: Live 24 hour video surveillance of Ultima Online, EverQuest and Asherons Call... ULTIMA ONLINE: ORIGIN Ultima Online is a multiplayer online role-playing game that takes place in the mystical, medieval world of Britannia. SiSSYFiGHT 2000: WORD.COM and ERIC ZIMMERMAN SiSSYFiGHT 2000 is, like, an intense war between a bunch of girls who are all out to ruin each other's popularity and self-esteem.