The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced that fourteen video games will be on display at the prestigious New York museum from 2 March 2013 to 31 January 2014.
The games will be part of the “Applied Design” piece, which is an installation in the Phillip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries.
“On display are 14 videogames that constitute the beginning of a new branch of MoMA’s collection,” said MoMA.
“The exhibition features outstanding examples of interface and interaction design, dynamic visualizations, products, furniture, 3D printed chairs and bowls, emergency equipment, and biodesign.”
The games on display will be:
- Pac-Man (1980)
- Tetris (1984)
- Another World (1991)
- Myst (1993)
- SimCity 2000 (1994)
- vib-ribbon (1999)
- The Sims (2000)
- Katamari Damacy (2004)
- EVE Online (2003)
- Dwarf Fortress (2006)
- Portal (2007)
- flOw (2006)
- Passage (2008)
- Canabalt (2009)
This is just the initial batch, as MoMa hopes to reach about 40 games in the collection. The collection is said to emphasise “not only the visual quality and aesthetic experience of each game, but also the many other aspects—from the elegance of the code to the design of the player’s behavior—that pertain to interaction design.”
*image is not the display, obviously.
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