Games have been quietly shaping the world for longer than most people realise.
The third edition of FACT's journal, Gamespace, gathers conversations, essays and curatorial reflections in an attempt to model what a more critical engagement with games might look like from within an art institution, with full awareness of the risks that position carries: of lending legitimacy rather than applying scrutiny, of celebrating a medium while leaving its conditions of production unexamined, of using the tools of the system to critique the system and finding, in the end, that the system wins.
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Highlights include:
- Dr Nicola Triscott on the world that games built
- Aleena Chia and Marijam Didžgalvytė in conversation at FACT
- David Blandy and Jazmin Morris discuss games, ecology and the politics of representation
- Uma Breakdown explores what is specific to video games as an artistic medium, and what both the creators and players of games can achieve
- Theo Triantafyllidis and Maitreyi Maheshwari on the game engine as an artistic medium
- Milia Xin Bi 毕昕 expands on the ideas explored in her exhibition at FACT, Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria?
- Lesley Taker shares a piece of autofiction about playing games, writing and making art
