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Explore ’Video Games Art’ in Jason Rohrer’s Exhibition

United States Architecture News - Feb 15, 2016 - 15:15   4742 views

Explore ’Video Games Art’ in Jason Rohrer’s Exhibition

Jason Rohrer inside his new exhibition at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, “The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer” — the first solo museum show dedicated to the work of a single video game creator. image © Thomas Willis.

Passage’s creator, Jason Rohrer, is the subject of a new exhibition at Wellesley College’s Davis museum, “The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer,” which is being touted as the first solo art museum retrospective for a video-game designer. (Passage is already a permanent part of MoMA’s collection.) Aside from putting to bed any lingering doubts about the genre’s artistic potential, the show presents an oeuvre that spans genres and conceits that would be difficult, maybe impossible, to tackle in a different medium......Continue Reading

Explore ’Video Games Art’ in Jason Rohrer’s Exhibition

The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer exhibition catalog, distributed by MIT Press.

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