JODI: Unittitled Gamrs, SOD

 

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGjksSBYEgs

 

SOD is a computer game created bu Dirk Paesmans and Joan Heemskerk in 1999. The main features of the game is only contain black white and grey as main colour. The game environment is focus on the wall that use geometric shapes and patterns. So it makes the gamer can enjoy different aspect of the environment in a visual space and change the gaming experiences for them.

I think that game is an art, it is because the elements of the games only contains simple geometric shapes with contrast colour that appears in the whole environment. It is easy make the gamer to feel lost. It different for the general computer games that have full colour and details elements. Besides, when the gamer move to different area, it not just have visual spaces changes, the game only have basic sound effect and it don't have any complete words/sentence for the instructions. It randomly use the English alphabet to represent. So it don't like the general computer games that we always play.

Digital games - But are they art?

1.      What do we think about art?

In our opinion the most important features of art are: art should have aesthetic values and be in a special way beautiful at the same time art should have a purpose and should convey a message, should be narrative and bring people together. Art should be touching and produce feelings into the audience and be interactive. The artist should be expressing specific thoughts and values and should be something that people would remember.

2.      Art should have contents ideas , utility and save ability

We divide the types of games into two parts, the ones who posses aesthetic values and are interactive and have specific purpose and give a message, also they could have a role into our history, those ones could be considered as art, however the other type of games are the ones who are designed just for pleasure and fun and they are completely commercial and they have no purpose and rather meaningless, also they have a bad impact on people’s life those are the ones we classify as non-possessing artistic values.

Wong Wing talk about Eric Siu's Touchy

After Eric Siu introduce his new new invention- Touchy, a camera that can make people closer. We form a discussion group made a short video to discuss his idea.

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