{"id":50626,"date":"2013-02-15T10:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50626"},"modified":"2013-02-15T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:17:59","slug":"museum-of-modern-art-gets-gaming-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50626-museum-of-modern-art-gets-gaming-injection","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Modern Art gets gaming injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced that fourteen video games will be on display at the\u00a0prestigious New York museum from 2 March 2013 to 31 January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be part of the \u201cApplied Design\u201d piece, which is an installation in the Phillip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn display are 14 videogames that constitute the beginning of a new branch of MoMA\u2019s collection,\u201d said MoMA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The exhibition features outstanding examples of interface and interaction design, dynamic visualizations, products, furniture, 3D printed chairs and bowls, emergency equipment, and biodesign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The games on display will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pac-Man (1980)<\/li>\n<li>Tetris (1984)<\/li>\n<li>Another World (1991)<\/li>\n<li>Myst (1993)<\/li>\n<li>SimCity 2000 (1994)<\/li>\n<li>vib-ribbon (1999)<\/li>\n<li>The Sims (2000)<\/li>\n<li>Katamari Damacy (2004)<\/li>\n<li>EVE Online (2003)<\/li>\n<li>Dwarf Fortress (2006)<\/li>\n<li>Portal (2007)<\/li>\n<li>flOw (2006)<\/li>\n<li>Passage (2008)<\/li>\n<li>Canabalt (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just the initial batch, as MoMa hopes to reach about 40 games in the collection. The collection is said to emphasise \u201cnot only the visual quality and aesthetic experience of each game, but also the many other aspects\u2014from the elegance of the code to the design of the player\u2019s behavior\u2014that pertain to interaction design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>*image is not the display, obviously.<\/em><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"MOMA\" href=\"http:\/\/press.moma.org\/2013\/02\/applied-design\/?apd\" target=\"_blank\">MoMA\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50523-top-5-gaming-romances.html\">Top 5 gaming romances<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50597-valve-lays-off-25-employees-newell-responds.html\">Valve lays-off 25 employees, Newell responds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50591-the-last-of-us-delayed.html\">The Last of Us delayed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50586-take-two-grabs-wwe-title.html\">Take-Two grabs WWE franchise from defunct THQ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games truly are art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,8870,8871,1157,2813],"class_list":["post-50626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-moma","tag-museum-of-modern-art","tag-video-games","tag-video-games-as-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50629,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50626\/revisions\/50629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}