Remixtures

No seguimento de um post anterior que eu publiquei aqui sobre o estilo de música electrónica chiptune, que utiliza os chips de áudio de consolas dos anos 80 e 90, e a cultura de remisturas de títulos clássicos dessa época, fiquei hoje a conhecer através do Tobias C. Van Veen o 8 Bit, um documentário sobre a confluência entre a arte e os vídeojogos: demoscene, machinima, mods, etc. Pelo excerto disponível na YouTube parece ser bastante interessante. O cartaz que acompanha este post é do mago da pixel art eBoy.

8 BIT is a hybrid documentary examining the influence of video games on contemporary culture.

A mélange of a rocumentary, art expose and a culture-critical investigation, 8 BIT ties together seemingly disconnected phenomena like the 80’s demo scene, chiptune music and contemporary artists using machinima and modified games.

Produced in NYC, LA, Paris and Tokyo, 8 BIT brings a global perspective on the new artistic approaches of the DIY generation which grew up playing Atari and Commodore 64.

Some of the artists featured in 8 BIT include Cory Arcangel, Bit Shifter, Bodenstandig 2000, Bubblyfish, Mary Flanagan, Alex Galloway, Glomag, Paul Johnson, John Klima, Johan Kotlinski, Nullsleep, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, Akiko Sakaizumi, Eddo Stern, TEAMTENDO, Treewave and Carlo Zanni.

With the help of media critic Ed Halter and new media curator and writer Christiane Paul, these very recent artistic strategies are put in the historical context of modernist and postmodernist discourse and examined as potential examples of a transition into fresh, uncharted territory.

8 BIT insists that in the 21st century Game-Boy rock, machinima and game theory belong together and share a common root: the digital heritage of Generation X.

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