Video game art
Game Art, game art, game art is an art movement that developed in the early 21st century and explicitly refers to the virtual space of digital game worlds. Game Art is a genre of art, which is sub-grouped in media art.
Definition
Game artists take computer games as sources of inspiration and derive their own ideas, which need to reflect the virtual world of digital game worlds. Here, their works of art do not have to quote explicitly computer games, computer game characters, respectively, but can also reflection processes on digital games, virtual landscapes / spaces / characters, game design and the like represent what is in connection with computer games. These inspired by computer games art can be digital - arise and analog in the form of paintings on canvas, sculptures and the like - in the form of modified computer games. Game Art may also overlap with other art forms. So the Game Artist Invader street art as well as the game type is for example belonging. The pixel art can be understood as a subset of the game art so that this, some of whose works relate to computer games.
Examples of works of art of Game Art
The French artist Invader brings mosaic images of characters from the game Space Invaders anonymous at night in cities. He began in 1998 in Paris. Later he installed his art world also in other French cities and on.
The Swiss artist Matthias Zimmermann designed large-format, generated in the digital space images he prints on canvas and spans on a stretcher. His paintings depict landscapes as a spatial construction and associate digital game worlds. Some of his paintings are fictitious, while other images explicitly speak to computer games.
Pain Station is an original by Tilman Reiff and Volker Morawe, two students from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2001, developed as an interactive art object system. The designers were inspired here by the Children's torture Mau Mau and the development of modern computer games. A cinematic model it never never gave in 1983 in the James Bond film sag. In the fictional computer game "Domination" the loser will be punished by electric shocks over the joystick. Who has let go of the joystick lost.
Exhibition « GameArt " Völklingen, 2003/2004
From 22 November 2003 to 18 April 2004, the meaningful in terms of Game Art Exhibition « GameArt » took place in the Voelklinger hut, were shown at the international artists whose art explicitly refers to computer games and reflects the virtual space of digital game worlds. In the blower house with 6,000 m2 floor area 37 great artists works / installations have been installed between the big machines. The works of art shown there were divided into three categories / topics:
Next, the emergence, development and marketing of artificial and virtual personalities were discussed. The works of art shown there were some digitally generated, while other works of art were analog in nature and installations, modified video games, digital print paintings, sculptures, performance showed.