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Pope and Guthrie’s fascination with the 'soft underbelly’ of the WWW resulted in 'a unique piece that connects the real with the virtual through online software and a gallery installation.
The artists had been researching a number of online multi user 'games’, text only virtual spaces created with software originally conceived before the arrival of the World Wide Web, but facilitated through computer networks …

CuteXdoom II is a game- modification and installation which is the second installment in the artists’ CuteXdoom videogame series …

Frame Game is a video taken from the series 'Distractions’, shot by artist Michael Nyman in various parts of the world during the past fifteen years.
Experimentation with the medium of video, its limits and its ability to allow an infinite range of possibilities and random coincidences, remains a focal point of this work …

A generative music video game created for the Commodore 64 and widely considered as the first art video game …

Puppet Motel consists of over 30 'rooms’, interactive vignettes populated with Anderson’s stories, songs, imagery, videos and much more, beautifully crafted into an immersive environment by Hsin-Chien Huang.
No instructions are given within each of the rooms, instead the audience must explore the environment to discover hidden clues and audio visual elements – this is no simple point and click operation, the visitor is required to use the gamut of mouse and keyboard interaction, lingering over screen elements to hear stories or repeatedly trying to pull the electric plug out of the wall in the television room.
Plug sockets feature extensively throughout the piece, completing tasks in some rooms may reveal a glowing socket – a conduit to other rooms within the motel and back to the Hall of Time’ which opens the piece and from which most of the rooms are accessible …

Space Invaders Act 1732 is a response to the Space Advertising Prohibitions Act of 1993, legislation against giant advertising billboards in space that plays with the symbolism of the arcade classic.

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The Path is a darkly seductive horror game inspired by older versions of the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale …