Last week I went to see a movie at Fab Lab on 2nd Street. They have a Wolf Parade video on their website so they MUST be cool.. heh. Basically, its across from the Marble. Here is the blurb about the movie from their website:
“8 BIT ably chronicles the modernist and post-modernist tendencies in the relatively recent history of video game-based art, but also suggests that the bit- bending antics of the post-video game generation hint at a new current in the uncharted waters of 21st century art history.”
Yeah, that's what she said.
The movie was was a documentary about gaming hacks that make techno music. It traced the roots of people hacking early Commodore 64 games and putting sexy ladies on the intro screens, and followed that all the way to some current first person shooter games where the artist has imposed anti-war graffiti on the walls of a battle scene. Some of the techno created with a program for the gameboy was pretty cool and offered an interesting glimpse of electronic music as a bunch of geometric patterns. There was also some Hunter College professor who kept talking about the epistemology of Object Oriented Programming, I think she just learned the word and wanted to use it a bunch. Still it was sort of relevant to my work stuff. It was in a hip outdoor setting, and there was even a Nam Jun Paik reference to make my post modern heart go pitter patter.
I would see this again on netflix, and certainly recommend it to all my nerdly programmer friends.
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