[FRAY]play

[prof_pangaea]

[FRAY]play


is a virtual/physical curatorial game engine, in which players will, through gameplay, view and also participate in various artworks and art practices. Players will be arranged into four groups, or teams, and will have to solve a series of separate but intertwining problems and puzzles. The method of solution of these problems will vary with individual teams and constitutes the main gameplay. Gameplay is not merely the practice by which solutions are arrived at, but also the solution itself -- in other words, the way in which players must think and associate different art and art practice to arrive at the solution to a given level of the game also reflects the over-riding theme of the game itself, and thus necessitates thoughtful consideration of artworks; their meanings, their relationship to other works, and their relationship to the game.

In addition, artists whose work is included in the game are asked to be active participants in the development of the game, thus changing the passive role of artists in standard curatorial practises into an active one.



[FRAY]play is a project that I have been working on all semester, with three in-class collaborators (Tamas Kemensky, Chris LaGarce, and Beatriz Albuquerque), who made three of the stages, and two others (copperbadge and cesario and I worked on a stage together); I also developed the website (ultra awesome dispenser and recombinator coding is by Tamas Kemensky, of Busker). Project launch is on Saturday, May 13, at the [FRAY] after party at the Chicago Art Department. If it is successful, [FRAY]play should be an extremely interesting event/project/piece.

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Interesting stuff.

[undeadphantom.livejournal.com]

I want to play. By the way, I did do my Senior Thesis on Conway's Game of Life!!!!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm going to pimp this on Saturday -- unless you want me to do it earlier? It'll be Saturday night, as I'm traveling.

*BOUNCES UP AND DOWN EXCITEDLY LIKE A FIVE YEAR OLD*

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

Actually, feel free to pimp before Saturday -- there are obviously people who read your journal who live in Chicago, and they might be interested in attending the after party at the Chicago Art Department (or even the conference at the school! Although I doubt that.) Location and directions are here: http://www.chicagoartdepartment.org/about/location.html

We've been putting up fliers around town and school, but we're really hoping to get people signing up to play on Saturday. I've got to revise some of the pages on the website to clarify things, so it's still under construction, but it's mainly all there.

So, in essence: PIMP THOU TO ALL YE WISH.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

SO PIMPED!

And now I feel slightly silly for calling you "Richard", but that was the name on your email...:D

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

I know. I am sneaky that way.

This project is actually the first time I've put my real name up on a website. It is strange.