Texts

Let’s think about fun !

Dans Arts numériques de MCD, 2008, FR

Games-music by Isabelle Arvers

Les arts numériques s’installent au cœur de Paris avec la Gaiete Lyrique (fr)

Flux and Remix

10 ans de festival de cinéma en ligne pour Fluxus Online à Sao Paolo, FR

Electronic Shadow : habiter l’image (fr)

Empyre

Discussion about Modernity published on the Empyre mailing list, ENG

Modernity vs antiquit ypublished on the Empyre mailing list

Enter the void

Post on Digitalarti (FR)

Neen ou la communication entre des anges

Rencontres avec le mouvement artistique Neen, 2006, FR

Penser l’œuvre d’art en dehors de l’économie culturelle traditionnelle – Read it online on Archée

Playmobile festival, post on Digitalarti

Saint Ex ou le jeu vidéo comme moyen d’expression

Text Exposition Login

Je(ux) tu perds gagnes, violence, société et jeux vidéo, Digitalarti

Video games portraits / Player One, Amusement

La muséographie au défi de l’immatérialité by Isabelle Arvers sur ArtFact 2007 (fr)

LowRez Booklet by Isabelle Arvers

LowRez Stories by Isabelle Arvers

Le jeu vidéo, un moyen, d’expression à la portée de tous?

Arcadi, 2006, FR

Servovalve, doseur de temps et de hasard

Arcadi, 2006, FR

Curatorial statements

Banana04 RAM Net.art section Ancona Italy 2004
Mind Control, Lack of Entertainment creates monsters, Interaction.
Entertainment has largely been perceived negatively in the western Roman Catholic tradition of thinking. Entertainment is the soul’s perdition. Etymologically, di-vertere means a subtraction from a whole, it’s a distraction for the spirit. This is the terrible FLY of the Thoughts of Pascal, which disturbs you when you try to think about your condition as a human being, alone in front of your destiny of mortal humanity. This is what allows us to forget that we will die, and nonetheless that we have to work and fight for a master, whoever he is, and wait for our death.
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curatorial text written for the exhibit Reactivate, (EN), Melbourne, Australia, october 2004
Once upon a time, there was Game Time.
More than 40 years after the first computer game creation by hackers at the MIT, the Games Industry is in 2004 the most powerful leisure Industry. The Game Generation has overcome the TV Generation. Game culture and aesthetic are overwhelming our information society. So the question is: which type of content do we want to see in games? How do we succeed to give real content and messages to the future generations by the mean of games?
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Reactivate! Game time intention, Melbourne, 2004 (in french)
GAME TIME se fonde sur l’hybridation des formes que permet aujourd’hui le numérique et sur la rencontre de disciplines telles que le jeu vidéo, le cinéma numérique, l’animation, la musique électronique, le web design, l’architecture… Il en émerge de nouvelles formes d’écritures, de pédagogie et d’exposition des œuvres.
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reActivate! Game Time 1st oct/15 nov 2004 Melbourne
In an art world characterized by new technologies, distributed environments and simulation, the conditions and motivations that inspire art practice have been forever altered. What was once known simply as media art has now branched into myriad other art forms each with its own discrete communities, lingo, technical and social preoccupations that are irreversibly dismantling traditional rituals for making and experiencing art. Video and computer gaming have had a lot to do with it.
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No Fun, Games and the gaming experience, Piksel free and opesnsource software Festival, 2005
If you ask a hard core gamer why he likes a game, his answer will often be: “I like it, because it’s fun” Why has fun nowadays become such a serious question? Because, today, game benefits are the largest in the entertainment industry, and as a matter of fact, they have become the new media by excellence: a tool used massively to manipulate, to communicate and influence certain behaviors.
Then, there is another reason to think about games as a serious question: they represent a new mode of interaction to the world for a whole generation. So, game content is a huge question.
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Interviews of artists and curators by Isabelle Arvers

Bob Stein, Digital Guru

Amusement, 2011, ENG

How real time cinema came to Friedrich Kirschner

MCD Special Game Culture, 2011, FR + ENG