Re: topic of the month - GAME ON - art and gaming

[Chris Byrne]

At 9:38 pm +0100 21/10/02, mark lawton wrote:

i do believe a discussion began quite recently that i for one think is worth pursuing and funnily enough there are a couple of parallels thrown up here particularly with regards to the funding and purpose of public spaces

Fair enough, but is it a problem to have another discussion topic suggested for the list? Surely there's room for some pluralism here. If people want to carry on a thread about CCA/DDA/Iraq/peace demo that's okay, but others should be allowed to discuss other topics if they wish to do so, don't you think?

as for games ....

real war games are upon us and you wish to talk about the artistic and cultural significance of pac-man and space invaders !?

absolutely incredible

and wtf has the edinburgh errm exhibition got to do with anything ?

There are also works by new media artists in the show - some of them are subscribed to <ambit>. So in fact it's pretty relevant to the focus and the subscriber base of the list.

We could get into a discussion about flight/battle simulation games and their similarity to military training simulators... but I for one would be interested in hearing people's reactions to the Game On exhibition.

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