Tetrageddon Games ( http://tetrageddon.com ) is an open source freeware arcade, and my long-term project to explore the re-definition of int...
Tetrageddon Games ( http://tetrageddon.com ) is an open source freeware arcade, and my long-term project to explore the re-definition of interactivity, and how interactivity has revolutionized entertainment using the game medium, and the internet as a delivery platform.nConsisting of a collection of “Pop Games” translating the digital age’s cultural taboos, icons, and web humor, it invites the viewer to play with its resulting abstract impressions, while posing the question: how will art inevitably look in light of the digital revolution? What will it evolve into? More important still, how will it behave?nInteractivity has revolutionized entertainment to such an extent that the viewer is no longer passive, but a participant. They are just as responsible for the work as the artist. The interactive layer has also introduced a profound sense of responsibility for the art — Because of one’s actions, the viewer experiences the piece at a deeper, more intimate level than ever before. nDue to the intangible nature of digital work, it is not real. It doesn’t exist anywhere but in the theoretic world that we have constructed on the internet. Nevertheless, this alternate reality has grown to be one of the most important aspects of our lives.nIn this digital plane we have realities mixing, points of view colliding, and unexplored concepts coming to light on a round-the-clock basis. Art has always been an expression of the times, but how do these times look? How would you express something as abstract and relentless as digital life? nIt must move, and react. Art must be, for a lack of a better term, intelligent. Here error screens, cryptic digital messages, popular humor tickling the nonsense nerve, noisy music, non-pertinent arguments, artificial intelligence, and hard to follow (possibly pointless) plots all merge to create that expression. Tetrageddon Games is this, my “creative El Dorado”. It is something only understood in context of its times. Less
