WAR, SEX AND GOD: 8-BIT CULTURAL CRITIQUE AND THE WHITEBOX PIXEL GALLERY
Artist Lenny Correa sends in his latest project, the Whitebox Pixel Gallery, “a special-purpose computer built to preserve and expose the history of console video game design… [and] aims to facilitate a dialogue between the understudied history of the medium.”
Correa explains of the game selection in his first curated Whitebox exhibition at a NASA (Newark Artists Space Association) Space Camp event, which included cheesecake porn NES games like Hot Slots and Honey Peach, Wisdom Tree’s unlicensed Christian output like Bible Adventures and King of Kings and “pro-war” titles like Operation Secret Storm and Contra:
this catalog is limited to the Nintendo Entertainment System and is based on the themes of war, sex and god. the examples included clearly illustrate the infancy of the medium while still allowing their cultural relevance to be felt…
in general, most of these games are really bad for you.
More info and plans to build your own Whitebox are included at the site.
Whitebox Pixel Gallery [Lenny Correa]
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