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Where have all the videogame console artists gone?

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Authors: Catanese Paul
Source: Level Up Conference Proceedings
Utrecht: University of Utrecht, November, 2003
Pages: 350-359
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Abstract:

This paper offers insight into the brief history of those artists whose work utilizes, incorporates or subverts the aesthetics and/or technology of video games. It questions why artwork that subverts consoles is seen less frequently than other emerging forms such as sampling, modifications (mods) and machine cinema (machinima). The paper concludes by offering an examination of obstacles which face artists creating console based subversion and points to these as the reasons why this emerging form is seen with less frequency than the others.

Keywords: Art, Machinima, Mods, Console-Based Subversion