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The Beall Center at UC Irvine opens the year with “Grand Text Auto.” An exhibit by six artists at the cutting edge of digital games and narrative.
The Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine opens the season with “Grand Text Auto” by New Media Artists, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Mary Flanagan, Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern, Nick Montfort, and Scott Rettberg from October 4 thru December 15, 2007.
“Grand Text Auto” slams you into the driver’s seat for a reckless ride to new fictional forms. Those familiar with the Beall Center’s exhibits know that digital technology is turning the world of fiction and narrative on its head.
Online,” Grand Text Auto” is a blog with more than 150,000 visitors a month, collectively authored by six artists at the cutting edge of digital games and narrative. Offline, “Grand Text Auto” members have been shown in major art museums, been written about in leading national periodicals, and shipped games that have met wide acclaim and sold millions of copies. Now, for the first time this popular blog will move into a gallery.
You’ll experience Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern’s “Façade,” hailed as “the future of video games” by The New York Times, as well as Nick Montfort's “Winchester's Nightmare,” the first "hardcover" interactive fiction, published as a limited edition of prepared laptops and Scott Rettberg’s landmark collaborative hypertext fiction “The Unknown.” Experience collaborative play with Mary Flanagan’s “Giant Joystick” where users play classic arcade games by moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin's collaborative "Screen" played on a large one-wall virtual reality display.
Scheduled Events include:
Opening Reception, Thursday, Oct. 4, from 6:30pm to 9pm, Beall Center, 712 Arts Plaza.
Artists Symposium, Friday, Oct. 5, from 1pm to 5pm, UCI Art Studio Bldg, Room 160.
Artists Performance, Friday, Oct. 5, from 6pm to 8pm, UCI Winifred Smith Hall.
Family Day, Saturday, Nov. 3, from 11am to 3pm, Beall Center, 712 Arts Plaza.
For more information go to beallcenter.uci.edu or call (949) 824-4339.
All events are located at UC Irvine, and are free and open to the public.
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