If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart. This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also ...
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If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart. This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also ...
Hans Ulrich Obrist on How Video Games Can Level-Up the Art World
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10 months ago
Hans Ulrich Obrist on How Video Games Can Level-Up the Art World
What if the next time you went to a museum you didn’t just look at the art on the wall—what if you activated a controller and played it? To a certain degree, this is already happening. Video game-based art has been displayed in major shows, from the Venice to the Whitney biennial; MoMA has historical video games from Pong to Minecraft in its permanent collection; and the pioneering video game artist Auriea Harvey recently had a survey at the Museum of the Moving Image that had almost as...
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If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart. This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also ...
