September 2006
May 2006
99ROOMS.COM
by azusa & 16 others99ROOMS.COM - A Project of Kim Koester, Richard Schumann, Stephan Schulz and Johannes Buenemann
TheBroth - The Global Mosaic
by amandacherry & 5 othersA massively multiplayer Web 2.0 application where players can move 1,000 colorful tiles to form collaborative mosaic artworks. When someone moves a tile, everyone else can see it move in real-time on their screens.
March 2006
mario soup
by mbertier (via)This piece examines the unpacking of a Nintendo game cartridge, decoding the program as a four-color image, revealing a beautiful soup of the thousands of individual elements that make up the game screen.
February 2006
January 2006
Turning Games Into a New Kind of Art - New York Times
by zboog"Breaking and Entering: Art and the Video Game" at PaceWildenstein in Chelsea, a sampling of work by four artists and three collectives organized by Patricia K. Hughes, an assistant curator at the gallery.
The Essential 50 Part 44: Parappa the Rapper from 1UP.com
by bcpbcpGraphics and images have been an integral part of every game ever made -- it's a visual medium, after all. What you see is what you get. Even the most primitive games that couldn't draw proper images onscreen at least gave you ASCII art or text. And so it went, throughout gaming history, until Parappa the Rapper finally brought a new sense into play: in NanaOn-Sha's PSone masterpiece, you had to rely on your ears as much as your eyes.